There isn’t a limit to a man’s thought that’s creating and adding new traits to machines with each passing day. We’ve seen robots with varying utilities. If it were only the professional doing it, we could have taken it. But when students and self-employed engineers develop machines high-end enough to even put the masters to shame, we are somehow caught disillusioned. Innovation is no man’s legacy, a phrase well exhibited by students from Harbin Engineering University who’ve developed a “sweeping staircase robot,” that won first prize at National College of mechanical design innovation and competition.
What’s innovative:
The brainchild of students from Kazakhstan, the sweeping staircase robot is a novel invention — it’s one of a kind that we have heard about in a while. The robot is equipped with a wheelchair and is strongly built. The intelligent machine understands the complexity of the stairs and can accordingly negotiate its moves.
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This is one of the three already made machines by the innovative students. This third generation robot is a perfect cleaning function machine for any staircase. The robot would re-emphasize on the human cleaning ways, guaranteeing total cleanliness on the stairs, making it easy for kids, the elderly and the rest to move up and down freely.
Comments
Great to see such an invention by the students of a former soviet republic and relatively poor country. But Kazakhstan is not exactly a scientifically backward country. In fact, it has had the best labs for robotics and space technology during the Soviet days like the Baikonur Cosmodrome which are still world class and used till now.
Very nice and can be a very useful machine for tall buildings. This can be further compacted and commercially sold. Cleaning staircases is a very tedious process and involves a lot of skill. If done improperly, it can be dangerous for staircase users, and the cleaning process itself involves a fair degree of risk.