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 bythe inventors: “Autonomous mobile robots can move about an envi ronment and can perform functionsand operations in a variety of categories, inc luding but not limited to security operations, infrastructureor maintenance ope rations, navigation or mapping operations, inventory management operations, androbot/human interaction operations. Some mobile robots, known as cleaning robots , can perform cleaningtasks autonomously within an environment, e.g., a home. M any kinds of cleaning robots are autonomousto some degree and in different ways . For example, some mobile cleaning robots can perform bothvacuuming and moppin g operations or routines.”
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