184 patents
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot with Variable Cleaning Features
11 Jan 24
A mobile cleaning robot can include a body movable within an environment and can define a suction duct.
Eric J. Burbank, Christopher Mehegan, Jason Lemieux
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
Cleaning Pad Assembly for Mobile Robot
14 Dec 23
A cleaning pad for a mobile cleaning robot can include a backing layer, a cleaning layer, and a card.
Brian Cleve Benson, JR., Russell Walter Morin, Robert Sasena
Filed: 10 Jun 22
Utility
Visual Fiducial for Behavior Control Zone
7 Dec 23
A mobile cleaning robot system can include a mobile cleaning robot and processing circuitry.
Eric J. Burbank, Oliver Lewis
Filed: 21 Aug 23
Utility
Systems and Methods for Configurable Operation of a Robot Based on Area Classification
30 Nov 23
A method of operating a mobile robot includes generating a segmentation map defining respective regions of a surface based on occupancy data that is collected by a mobile robot responsive to navigation of the surface, identifying sub-regions of at least one of the respective regions as non-clutter and clutter areas, and computing a coverage pattern based on identification of the sub-regions.
Alexander D. Kleiner, Mario E. Munich
Filed: 9 Aug 23
Utility
Robot Localization and Mapping Accommodating Non-unique Landmarks
30 Nov 23
Robot localization or mapping can be provided without requiring the expense or complexity an “at-a-distance” sensor, such as a camera, a LIDAR sensor, or the like.
Vazgen Karapetyan, Artem Gritsenko, Zacharias Psarakis, Guanlai Li, Daniele Tamino
Filed: 26 May 23
Utility
Graphical User Interfaces Including Touchpad Driving Interfaces for Telemedicine Devices
23 Nov 23
The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence devices.
Charles S. Jordan, Andy Young, Mei Sheng Ng, Yair Lurie, Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Bill Rizzi, James Ballantyne, Yulun Wang, Cheuk Wah Wong, Justin H. Kearns, Orjeta Taka, Ramchandra Karandikar
Filed: 2 Aug 23
Utility
Mobile Robot Cleaning Head Suspension
2 Nov 23
A mobile cleaning robot can be movable within an environment.
Timothy R. Ohm, David O. Swett, Fangzheng Guo
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot with Adjustable Suspension
2 Nov 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: 30 Jun 23
Utility
Settings for Mobile Robot Control
2 Nov 23
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot system including a mobile cleaning robot and a display device can include displaying a room cleaning settings indication selectable to set one or more cleaning settings for a previously-mapped specified room.
Stephen Messenger, Shereen Hameed, Aditya Athavale, Craig Michael Butterworth, Frank Judge, Jordan Pereira, Steven J. Baron
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Autonomous Monitoring Robot Systems
19 Oct 23
An autonomous mobile robot includes a chassis, a drive supporting the chassis above a floor surface in a home and configured to move the chassis across the floor surface, a variable height member being coupled to the chassis and being vertically extendible, a camera supported by the variable height member, and a controller.
Michael J. Dooley, Nikolai Romanov, Orjeta Taka, Justin H. Kearns
Filed: 26 Apr 23
Utility
Reducing Cleaning Roller Amplitude and Speed Oscillations of a Cleaning Robot
28 Sep 23
A roller assembly for a mobile cleaning system for cleaning a work surface can include a drive shaft, a sheath, a bushing, and a bushing shroud.
Hao-Yun Chow, Patrick Chow, Ke Ting Gao, Fangzheng Guo, Jennifer Ann Mauger, Rogelio Manfred Neumann, Jian Yun PI, Michael G. Sack, Rubal Verma
Filed: 30 May 23
Utility
Cleaning Pads for Autonomous Floor Cleaning Robots
7 Sep 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: 27 Feb 23
Utility
Mobile Robot Cleaning System
7 Sep 23
A method for operating or interacting with a mobile robot includes determining, using at least one processor, a mapping between a first coordinate system associated with a mobile device and a second coordinate system associated with the mobile robot, in which the first coordinate system is different from the second coordinate system.
Kenrick E. Drew, Philip Wasserman, Christopher V. Jones
Filed: 2 May 23
Utility
Mobile Cleaning Robot Suspension
31 Aug 23
A mobile cleaning robot can be movable within an environment, the mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel arm, a drive wheel, a cam, and a cam follower.
Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Amaral
Filed: 28 Feb 22
Utility
Maintenance Alerts for Autonomous Cleaning Robots
17 Aug 23
A robot cleaning system includes a mobile cleaning robot, a robot docking station, and a camera.
Michael Mullinax, John Luff, Ledia Dilo
Filed: 16 Feb 22
Utility
Scheduling and Control System for Autonomous Robots
10 Aug 23
An autonomous cleaning robot including a drive configured to move the cleaning robot across a floor surface in an area to be cleaned and a controller.
Benjamin H. Schriesheim, Cory White, Brent Hild
Filed: 17 Apr 23
Utility
Systems and Methods for Dock Placement for an Autonomous Mobile Robot
3 Aug 23
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for validating location of a docking station for docking a mobile robot.
Laura V. Herlant, Brent Hild, Ryan Schneider, Benjamin Glazer
Filed: 10 Apr 23
Utility
Social Behavior Rules for a Medical Telepresence Robot
20 Jul 23
Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein.
Marco Pinter, Fuji Lai, Daniel Steven Sanchez, James Ballantyne, David Bjorn Roe, Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Orjeta Taka, Cheuk Wah Wong
Filed: 22 Mar 23
Utility
Trajectory-based Localization and Mapping
25 May 23
An autonomous robot is maneuvered around a feature in an environment along a first trajectory.
Daniele Tamino, Artem Gritsenko, Andrea M. Okerholm Huttlin, Arman Karimian, Benjamin Pheil, Yao Chen, Renaud Moser, Jose Luis Franco Monsalve
Filed: 22 Nov 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Monitoring Autonomous Robotic Lawnmowers
18 May 23
A user device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, can provide a user with information pertaining to operations of an autonomous robotic lawnmower to assist the user with monitoring the operations of the robotic lawnmower and with setting up the autonomous robotic lawnmower.
Qunxi Huang, Wesley Johnson, Mark Edward Piana, Erik Steltz, Benjamin Axelrod, Ira Renfrew
Filed: 22 Mar 21