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 perform vacuuming operations and some can perform mopping operations. Other robots can include components or systems to perform both vacuuming andmopping operations. All types of mobile cleaning robots can I nterface with a docking station that canperform maintenance on the robot, such as charging and debris evacuation.”
NETL
NSTL