Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Cleaning robots include mobile robots that autonomously perfo rm cleaning tasks within an environment,e.g., a home. Many kinds of cleaning ro bots are autonomous to some degree and in different ways. Thecleaning robots in clude a controller that is configured to autonomously navigate the cleaning robo t aboutthe environment such that the cleaning robot can perform a mopping funct ion or ingest debris as it moves.”