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Students Build Window-Washing Robot
The Raw Feed — ... Four MSU mechanical engineering students have invented what is essentially a Roomba for windows. No, not Microsoft Windows. Their "Winboni" robot cleans glass. The robot attaches to any window with a suction fan, and moves across the surface cleaning and scrubbing with felt pads. It runs on AA batteries.

University students take home award for automated window-cleaning robot
DVICE Atom Feed — ... be able to tirelessly work on both home and office buildings, just like a robotic vacuum cleaner. If the design was improved upon, we could very well see a successor of the Winboni cleaning every office building in the future. Teammates Emily Duszynski, Kyle Koepf, Jonathan Luckhardt and Joshua Thomet took first place in the International Student Design Competition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Check out the video above to see how they did it. Media Newswire, via The Raw Feed

The Winboni is the Roomba of Window Washing [Robots]
Gizmodo — ... With one push of a button, the Winboni autonomously goes to work on your windows using a suction fan (to keep it attached to the window) along with some Windex and felt pads to do the washing. Obviously, the device is a little crude at the moment, but I can definitely see a team of tiny robots washing our windows somewhere down the line. [Media Newswire via ...

MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards
Engadget — ... We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope ...