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Robots Find a New Job: Skyscraper Window Washers / CNN

May 19, 2019 by Roni Livneh

A skyscraper window washer regularly ranks among the toughest jobs in the world.

The role, which can pay an upward of $27 an hour, often requires workers to hang hundreds of feet above the ground. The high wages and steep turnover rates have made the industry ripe for automation.

Israeli startup Skyline Robotics wants to replace those roles with robots, while employing the same people who currently hold those jobs.

“We’re hiring the window cleaners,” Yaron Schwarcz, CEO and Co-founder of Skyline, told CNN Business. “We have a lot of engineers, but to operate the robot, we hire ex-window cleaners.”

Schwarcz, who said the move mixes “good sense and good morals,” believes window washers have “the best experience to be the supervisors for these robots.” Read more.

 

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