Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Autonomous mobile robots include autonomous mobile cleanin g robots that can autonomously performcleaning tasks within an environment, suc h as a home. Many kinds of cleaning robots are autonomous tosome degree and in different ways. Some robots can interface with a docking station automatically. Thedocking station can perform maintenance on the robot such as charging of bat teries of the robot andevacuation of debris from a debris bin of the robot.”