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© Françoise Herrmann
Ay, caramba!
It’s time to Roomba®! This Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning is going to give you plenty of extra time to party since it will systematically, and autonomously, negotiate and mop every inch of
your living surfaces, picking up dust, dirt and your pet’s hair, without your
assistance…! And what is more it will probably give your pet a fun workout…
chasing and playing…. saving him or her from any terrifying devices that make
too much noise, or come too close for comfort!
This
particular iRobot Corp., patent, US201203665,
disclosing the automated mopping invention,
is 110 pages long and it has 65 Figure drawings, which should indicate the amount of details subsumed in building the components of this floor cleaning device, and making them work according
to robotic principle.
The Abstract of this invention is included below, with a drawing and a picture of a marketed iRobot Roomba®
Abstract
US2012036659
An autonomous floor cleaning
robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous
movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The
robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements
arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second
cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto
the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface
after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply
of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected
up from the cleaning surface.
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