Abstract
This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Autonomous mobile robots include autonomous cle aning robots that can autonomously perform cleaning tasks within an environment, such as a home. Many kinds of cleaning robots are autonomous to some degree and in different ways. The autonomy of mobile cleaning robots can be enabled by the use of a controller and multiple sensors mounted on the robot. In some examples , the robots can include devices for autonomously improving cleaning performance within an environment.”