It's no surprise that the first wave of robots that people have welcomed into their homes were charged with the menial task of cleaning. Now that iRobot's Roomba has effectively quenched any fears ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I’ve long dreamed of amassing an army of house cleaning robots. So I wanted to love the Winbot X ($599), the new window-cleaning robot ...

The idea sounds great: a robot that’ll wash your windows for you. The reality is a little more complicated. Ecovacs Robotics introduced the Winbot robotic window cleaner in 2013. The concept is ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. I hate ...

Ever since Spider-Man made the leap from comics to blockbuster films, I’ve always associated window washers with the Marvel superhero. After all, they share many characteristics: They constantly climb ...

Who would’ve thought that at a time when the general public seems to have accepted robotic vacuums and mops, we’d also see window-cleaning robots emerge as well? The Winbot W1 Pro is one such bot, and ...

LAS VEGAS--Robots that wash your windows are another dream of domestic automation, but most early models involve a cumbersome two-part unit that goes on both sides of a pane. At CES 2013, China-based ...

In short: Ecovacs Robotics has officially announced the launch of its WINBOT X, claimed to be a first-of-its-kind wireless window cleaning robot. Built around a square design that weighs just four ...

Cleaning windows is so arduous and dangerous that it earned its own 20 th-century catchphrase. “I don’t do windows”—a warning that the speaker may be desperate but still has limits—was a frequent ...

The performance of robots that take on such mundane chores as vacuuming the floor, mowing the lawn or cleaning the gutters has too often been disappointing. But the dream lives on in the new Winbot 7 ...