Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Mobile devices, such as mobile robots, can be operated to disinfect indoor areas, such as a room that hascontaminated surfaces. Typically, such devices do not disinfect an area in an efficient manner and may fail todisinfect all contaminated surfaces. Moreover, such devices typically require supervision from an operator,who periodically provides such mobile robots with instructions to perform a disinfection operation.”