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by avip 2458 days ago
There are multiple companies building and selling window cleaning robots. Drones are... terrible for this use case.
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MS90 2458 days ago
You know, I never realized until I read your comment that "drone" seems to specifically refer to a UAV, and "robot" to a terrestrial type.

Which is strange to me, since when I hear "drone" the first animal that comes to mind is an ant. I thought it'd just be a catch-all term for any kind of bot.

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yaj54 2458 days ago
A drone ant is a (fertile, male) flying ant.
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tiborsaas 2458 days ago
I didn't mean a flying thing and I know multiple companies exists. Good ideas doesn't need to sound novel at their core.

I can't recall now where, but heard the word drone used for robots. Maybe the boundary is getting blurrier?

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