Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Autonomous mobile cleaning robots can traverse floor surfa ces to perform various operations in an environment, such as vacuuming of one or more rooms of the environment. A cleaning robot can include a controller config ured to autonomously navigate the robot about an environment such that the robot can ingest debris as it moves. As an autonomous mobile robot traverses a floor surface, the robot can produce and record information about the environment and the robot, such as to generate a map of the environment for use in cleaning oper ations.”