Robots no more gets special treatment in Japan. Fuji Heavy Industries and Sumitomo have designed a Tondon robot that will now clean the apartments. Tondon robot features a special ‘Balinese’ paint job (means yellow with scribbles all over it) to go with the building it works in.
Tondon robot cleans everything from carpets to gutters with its heavy-duty brush/vacuum combo. Moreover, it can tour 14 floors without any without any grumbles requiring just the mandatory charge. The Tondon is currently assigned to clean hallway floors of a new 14-story Bali-themed luxury apartment complex in Tokyo without any supervision.
There are number of safety features that enable it to move freely from one to other without any hindrance. It uses an optical communication system to control the building’s elevators. Tondon also features a set of video cameras out of which four cameras record robot’s every move and hard disk that stores video feed. These cameras can also be used for the supervision thus, serving also a watchful security while cleaning.
Source: Pinktentacle
