Flying mini-robot cleaners Mab

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Inventor - Adrian Perez Zapata

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"Flying mini-robot cleaners win Electrolux Design Lab 2013 Contest"

October 16, 2013

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Mab -- Winner of Electrolux Design Lab 2013

Published Sep 18, 2013

Mab is an automated cleaning system consisting of hundreds of flying mini-robots which will clean all surfaces giving magic to daily activities. Mab will scan and clean up the house using the flight of the mini-robots, will also determine the areas in which the house is divided to run custom cleanings. The mini-robots clean surfaces with a drop touching and trapping the dirt particles, ensuring maximum cleaning. The design language has been designed to be elegant and neutral thus fitting various types of homes.

Designer: Adrian Perez Zapata
University: Universidad San Buenaventura Medellin and Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Mab - domestic Utopia
September 17, 2013

Mab is an automated cleaning system consisting of hundreds of flying mini-robots which will clean all surfaces giving magic to daily activities. Mab will scan and clean up the house using the flight of the mini-robots, will also determine the areas in which the house is divided to run custom cleanings. The mini-robots clean surfaces with a drop touching and trapping the dirt particles, ensuring maximum cleaning. The design language has been designed to be elegant and neutral thus fitting various types of homes.

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Electrolux Design Lab 2013 Final Event: Highlights

Published on Nov 5, 2013

The winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2013 design competition was announced October 16 in the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Watch the video to see the highlights from the event with interviews of Chief Design Officer and Head of Jury Stefano Marzano and see the comments from the winner of the competition Adrian Perez Zapata, Colombia, second place Luiza Silva, Brazil and third place Jeabyun Yeon from Korea.

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MAB Robot Presentation

Published on Dec 10, 2013

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Innovative design: Mab deploys flying robots to clean house

Published on Dec 16, 2013

Twenty-three-year-old Colombian designer Adrian Perez Zapata designed a home-cleaning system that has won the top prize at the Electrolux Design Lab competition. According to Zapata, his design was inspired by the controlled flight of bees.

The technology, called The Mab, is a circular automated cleaning system that scans an entire house for areas that need to be cleaned, then deploys hundreds of tiny, flying robots to carry out the task. The Mab comes with a total of 908 robots, which are solar powered and each clean using one drop of water.

The main docking device itself is equipped with a filter to keep reusable water clean, and pills which are deposited into the system through a capsule give water viscosity and surface tension to help the robots clean more efficiently.