Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Autonomous or robotic floor cleaners can move without the ass istance of a user or operator to cleana floor. Many autonomous floor cleaners n eed to return to a docking station to recharge their battery.Docking stations a re evolving to become multifunction docking stations that incorporate a number o fdifferent features. In order to further automate the cleaning process, some do cking stations have beenadapted to empty and/or refill the robot so that human intervention is reduced. However, autonomousfloor cleaners adapted for wet clea ning, i.e. robots that dispense cleaning fluid, typically still requirefrequent intervention and servicing by a human user to maintain the wet cleaning robots. Such efforts aretime-consuming and defeat the purpose of an autonomous cleaner .
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