399 patents
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Utility
Robotic mowing of separated lawn areas
28 Feb 23
A method of mowing multiple areas includes training a robotic mower to mow at least two areas separated by a space, including moving the robotic mower about the areas while storing data indicative of location of boundaries of each area relative to boundary markers, training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas, and initiating a mowing operation.
Paul C. Balutis, Andrew Beaulieu, Brian Yamauchi
Filed: 9 Oct 20
Utility
Cleaning pads for autonomous floor cleaning robots
28 Feb 23
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a robot body, a drive supporting the robot body to maneuver the robot across a floor surface, a pad holder attached to an underside of the robot body and configured to receive a removable cleaning pad, and a pad sensor configured to sense a pad type identifier on a central region of the cleaning pad.
John Reimels, Marcus R. Williams, Adam Goss, Isaac Fowler, Lucile Driscoll
Filed: 1 Oct 20
Utility
Particle filters and WiFi robot localization and mapping
28 Feb 23
Robot localization or mapping can be provided without requiring the expense or complexity of an “at-a-distance” sensor, such as a camera, a LIDAR sensor, or the like.
Justin H. Kearns, Orjeta Taka
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots
16 Feb 23
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations.
Artem Gritsenko, Erik Schembor, James R. Salvati, John Wang, Jonathan J. Dorich, Steven Kordell, Tadvana S. Canakapalli, Zacharias Psarakis
Filed: 23 Sep 22
Utility
Systems and methods for privacy management in an autonomous mobile robot
14 Feb 23
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, where the privacy mode setting is based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode.
Gregg Duthaler, Vincent Edward Colella
Filed: 12 Jan 21
Utility
Robotic Vacuum Cleaning System
9 Feb 23
An autonomous coverage robot includes a cleaning assembly having forward roller and rearward rollers counter-rotating with respect to each other.
Duane Leigh Gilbert, JR., Faruk Halil Bursal, Richard Joseph Therrien, Russell Walter Morin
Filed: 14 Oct 22
Utility
Cleaning pad for cleaning robot
7 Feb 23
A cleaning pad for an autonomous cleaning robot evenly wets and collects debris for cleaning operations.
Marcus Williams, Lin Lung Chieh
Filed: 23 Mar 20
Utility
Systems and methods for managing a semantic map in a mobile robot
7 Feb 23
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for maintaining a valid semantic map of an environment for a mobile robot.
Manjunath Narayana, Andreas Kolling, Philip Fong
Filed: 28 Feb 20
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot with Adjustable Suspension
2 Feb 23
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel, and a wheel stop.
Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Edward Steltz, Russell Walter Morin, Fangzheng Guo
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
Directing Air Streams at a Target
2 Feb 23
A method of a fan system directing an air stream at a target can include receiving, with a controller, a first image from an image capture sensor and analyzing the first image from the image capture sensor to determine a first location of the target.
Pierre Bi, Thomas Bi, Etienne Bougeot, Constantin Overlack, Duarte Santos
Filed: 27 Jul 22
Utility
Evacuation Station
2 Feb 23
A docking station for a mobile cleaning robot can include a base and a canister.
Brian W. Doughty, Leo Torrente, Travis Gschrey, Scott Thomas Burnett, Douglas Dell'Accio, Willy Chung
Filed: 1 Aug 22
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot Dustpan
2 Feb 23
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body and a cleaning assembly.
Erik Amaral, Timothy R. Ohm, Andrew Deschenes
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot with Skids
2 Feb 23
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel, and a plurality of skids.
Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Amaral, Andrew Deschenes
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
Cleaning pad for an autonomous cleaning robot
31 Jan 23
A cleaning pad includes a mounting surface disposed on a top side of the cleaning pad.
Brian Lucas
Filed: 9 Aug 19
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot Hardware Recommendations
26 Jan 23
A method of assisting user-configuration of hardware for a mobile autonomous cleaning robot can include detecting a flooring type of a room or other portion of an environment.
Andreas Kolling, Christopher Mehegan
Filed: 5 Aug 22
Utility
Clinical Workflows Utilizing Autonomous and Semi-autonomous Telemedicine Devices
19 Jan 23
The present disclosure describes various clinical workflows and other methods that utilize a telemedicine device in a healthcare network.
Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Yair Lurie, Yulun Wang
Filed: 27 Sep 22
Utility
Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots
19 Jan 23
A method includes receiving sensor data collected by an autonomous mobile robot as the autonomous mobile robot moves about an environment, the sensor data being indicative of sensor events and locations associated with the sensor events.
Shipra Arora, Michael Foster, Frank Judge, Brandon Rohrer, Christopher Shumaker, Matthew Weyant, Alex Wong, Lauren D. Stem
Filed: 23 Sep 22
Utility
Mapping, controlling, and displaying networked devices with a mobile cleaning robot
17 Jan 23
A mobile cleaning robot that includes a drive system configured to navigate around an operational environment, a ranging device configured to communicate with other ranging devices of respective electronic devices that are in the operational environment, and processors in communication with the ranging device that are configured to receive a distance measurement from the respective electronic devices present in the operational environment, each distance measurement representing a distance between the mobile cleaning robot and a respective electronic device, tag each of the distance measurements with location data indicative of a spatial location of the mobile cleaning robot in the operational environment, determine spatial locations of each of the electronic devices in the operational environment, and populate a visual representation of the operating environment with visual indications of the electronic devices in the operating environment.
Christopher V. Jones, Stephen Ernest O'Dea, Philip Wasserman
Filed: 31 Dec 18
Utility
Filtering Devices for Evacuation Stations
12 Jan 23
A filtering device for an evacuation station includes a filter bag configured to collect debris evacuated from a cleaning robot by an evacuation station.
Andrew Vincent Wolff, Ryan Mercier, Chin Xu, Jason Jeffrey Suchman
Filed: 7 Jul 21
Utility
Adjustable parameters for autonomous cleaning robots
10 Jan 23
A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot includes presenting, on a display of a mobile device, a representation of each of multiple cleaning levels, each cleaning level corresponding to a respective rank overlap parameter for a wet cleaning mission of the autonomous cleaning robot.
Ping-Hong Lu, Marcus Williams, Adam Goss, Melissa O'Dea
Filed: 9 Aug 19