Robot brings shade where you need it

It’s just a great idea! She was especially interested in the complexity of solving seemingly simple task – to protect them from direct sunlight. While most people use blinds and similar devices in the lab, Daniela Russ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to go in an unusual way and built a robot that can move on smooth glass surface of the building and open “umbrella” in front of your window.

Shady controlled via Bluetooth from your computer, in addition, it can autonomously find the point on the surface, which gets most of the world. In any case, in spite of such difficult decisions are debatable, it is worth noting an interesting way to move the robot through the building.