Abstract
The assignee for this patent, patent number 12025987, is iRobot Corporation (Bed ford, Massachusetts,United States).Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Autonomous mobile robots can move about a surface in an envir onment. Examples of the autonomousmobile robots include cleaning robots that au tonomously perform cleaning tasks within an environment,e.g., a home. Many kind s of cleaning robots are autonomous to some degree and in different ways. A cleaning robot can include a controller configured to autonomously navigate the robo t about an environmentsuch that the robot can ingest debris as it moves.