Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Autonomous mobile robots can move about an environment, an d perform several functions and operations in a variety of categories, including but not limited to security operations, infrastructure or maintenance operation s, navigation or mapping operations, inventory management operations, and robot/ human interaction operations. Some mobile robots, known as mobile cleaning robot s, can autonomously perform cleaning tasks within an environment, e.g., a home. Many kinds of cleaning robots are autonomous to some degree and in different way s. For example, a cleaning robot can conduct cleaning missions, where the robot traverses and simultaneously ingests (e.g., vacuums) debris from the floor surfa ce of their environment.
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