By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News - According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors CHENG, Pan (Beijing, CN); DUAN, Chuanlin (Beijing, CN); LI, Xing (Beijing, CN); LIU, Jungang (Beijing, CN); YANG, Fan (Beijing, CN); YANG, Zhimin (Beijing , CN), filed on February 9, 2022, was made available online on April 25, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Currently, there are two main types of cleaning robots, that is, a ground sweeping robot and a ground mopping robot. The ground sweeping robo t or the ground mopping robot has a single function, and may only be used for sw eeping or mopping a ground. If it is desired to sweep and mop the ground at the same time, the two apparatus have to be prepared at the same time, occupying a d ouble space.