Window-Washing Robot? Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes

So many robots. So little cleaning to do.

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For those of you keeping score, we’ve got robots that clean our floors, robots that clean our grills, and robots that clean our windows using a suction-like magic overshadowed only by Spider-Man himself.

See what we really need is one humanoid-like housecleaning robot to clean everything. Right now, we have too many individual robots each focused on a single task. While we wait for such a future to arrive, here’s the Winbot window-washing robot.

If this looks familiar, I wrote about it in mid-August. (Short version: It’s available at Hammacher Schlemmer for $400.) But to see it in person at CES is a truly powerful feeling, almost like being weak in the knees and having a tingling feeling in your stomach. Actually, I might need to take a break from all this walking around and find some antacid.

MORE: Check out TIME Tech’s complete CES coverage