查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by the inventors Ding, Dawei (Palo Alto, CA , US); Ratanaphanyarat, Gregg (Palo Alto, CA, US); Xie, Fei (Palo Alto, CA, US), filed on February 27, 2024, was made available online on September 26, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Autonomous robots are becoming increasingly prevalent due to their ability to automatically perform a variety of tasks that are typically performed manually by humans, or that have been performed with direct human cont rol of a robot. A simple example of an autonomous robot is a robotic floor clean er such as a robotic vacuum or a robotic mop. These robots are often programmabl e, allowing users to configure operation times, frequency of operation, and vari ous other settings for the robots. Once programmed, the robots may perform a tas k, move, and interact with the surrounding environment without requiring further human input. While such robots are becoming more prevalent, the robots are ofte n designed to perform only a single function, such as to clean a surface. As a r esult, performing a variety of tasks may be difficult and/or prohibitively expen sive due to the need to acquire a dedicated autonomous robot for each task that the user wishes to complete. Further, most robots are not designed to be automat ically serviced once completing their task, which requires human interaction at various stages of use.