Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Landscaping and groundskeeping services that keep a landsc ape healthy, clean, safe, and attractive,employ more than 1,000,000 individuals in the United States alone. Such employment is manual and laborintensivework. In other fields of endeavor, robots have been shown to be particularly suited t o performroutine manual tasks. Robots have yet to sufficiently penetrate the la ndscaping and groundskeepingmarkets, however. Typical robotic smart lawnmowers use randomness and sheer persistence to mow grass.This approach has not proven to be sufficiently efficient and effective to penetrate the landscaping andgrou ndskeeping markets. As a result, there is a need for improved smart lawnmowers.”
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