Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Autonomous mobile robots include autonomous mobile cleaning r obots that can autonomously perform cleaning tasks within an environment, such a s a home. Many kinds of cleaning robots are autonomous to some degree and in dif ferent ways. Some robots can interface with a docking station or other device au tomatically. The docking station can perform maintenance on the robot such as ch arging of batteries of the robot and evacuation of debris from a lid assembly of the robot.”
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