Irobot Corporation

Rogelio Manfred Neumann

David Orrin Swett

Fangzheng Guo

Adam Daniel Leech

Travis James Gschrey

Jian Yun Pi

Patrick Chow

Michael G Sack

Hao-Yun Chow

Rubal Verma

Ke Ting Gao

Jennifer Ann Mauger

Brian W Doughty

James J Mahoney, Jr

Robert Paul Roy

Leo Torrente

Levi Fox

Jack Zhang

Vincent Andrew Wolff

Celerick Stephens

Daniel N Ozick

Chikyung Won

Tony L Campbell

Christopher John Morse

Selma Svendsen

Stuart R Jang

John P O'Brien

Deepak Ramesh Kapoor

Benjamin H Schriesheim

Derek Verhoorn

Christopher M Casey

Scott Thomas Burnett

Milan Modh

Patrick Alan Hussey

Landon Unninayar

Sherman Gong

Qingtai Zhai

Daniel E C Grande

Daniel E Grande

A docking station for a mobile cleaning robot can include a canister and a base configured to receive the mobile cleaning robot thereon, where the base can include a front portion and a back portion opposite the front portion. The base can include a vacuum port extending at least partially through the base. The canister can be connected to the back portion of the base and can be located at least partially above the base. The canister can include a debris bin connected to the vacuum port to receive debris therefrom and a fan compartment connected to a side wall of the debris bin and including a fan system operable to draw debris through the vacuum port and the debris bin.

Evacuation dock with fluid management

A mobile cleaning robot movable within an environment can include a body, a drive arm, a container, a biasing element, and a link. The drive arm can be connected to the body and can be movable with respect to the body. The drive arm can support a drive wheel. The container can be connectable to the body and can be configured to carry a fluid therein. The biasing element can be connected to the drive arm to bias the drive wheel toward a floor surface. The link can be pivotably connected to the body and can be connected to the biasing element. The link can be engageable with the tank to adjust the biasing element based on an amount of the fluid in the container.

Mobile cleaning robot suspension

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. The drive shaft can be rotatable about a drive axis, and the drive shaft can include a driven end and an opposite bushing end. The sheath can be supported by the drive shaft and the sheath can be rotatable with the drive shaft. The sheath can include a shell engageable with the work surface. The bushing can be located about the bushing end of the drive shaft. The bushing shroud can be connected to the bushing. The sheath and the drive shaft can be together rotatable with respect to the bushing and the bushing shroud, the bushing shroud can include an outer portion defining a first radius of curvature and a recessed portion connected to the outer portion.

Reducing cleaning roller amplitude and speed oscillations of a cleaning robot

A mobile robot includes a recessed well in a top surface of the mobile robot, at least one capacitive sensor underlying the recessed well and having a first region and a second region, one or more mobility sensors, and a controller coupled to the at least one capacitive sensor and the one or more mobility sensors. The controller is configured to determine an operating status of the mobile robot responsive to output signals from the one or more mobility sensors, and selectively disregard an input at a first portion of the recessed well corresponding to the first region of the at least one capacitive sensor based on the operating status of the mobile robot.

Mobile robots with intelligent capacitive touch sensing

An autonomous mobile cleaning robot includes a cavity along a bottom portion of the robot, and a drive configured to support the robot above a floor surface. The drive is configured to propel the robot along the floor surface. The robot further includes a first electrical terminal disposed in the cavity and connected to electrical circuitry of the robot, a battery assembly, and a dovetail joint. The battery assembly includes a battery housing, a battery contained within the battery housing, and a second electrical terminal mounted to the battery housing and configured to engage with the first electrical terminal. The dovetail joint includes a vertically extending projection portion and a vertically extending socket portion.

Battery assembly for autonomous mobile robot

An autonomous floor-traversing robot includes: a wheeled body including a chassis and at least one motorized wheel configured to propel the chassis across a floor, the chassis defining an interior compartment disposed beneath a chassis ceiling; a cover extending across at least a central area of the chassis ceiling; and a graspable handle connected to the chassis and located outside the cover so as to be accessible from above the robot, the handle arranged to enable lifting of the robot. The chassis ceiling defines drainage channels configured to conduct the liquid away from the central area of the chassis ceiling.

Liquid management for floor-traversing robots

Robot

Battery

An autonomous coverage robot includes a body, a drive system disposed on the body, and a cleaning assembly disposed on the body and configured to engage a floor surface while the robot is maneuvered across the floor surface. The cleaning assembly includes a driven cleaning roller, a cleaning bin disposed on the body for receiving debris agitated by the cleaning roller, and an air mover. The cleaning bin includes a cleaning bin body having a cleaning bin entrance disposed adjacent to the cleaning roller and a roller scraper disposed on the cleaning bin body for engaging the cleaning roller. The cleaning bin body has a holding portion in pneumatic communication with the cleaning bin entrance, and the air mover is operable to move air into the cleaning bin entrance.

Autonomous coverage robots

A method of operating a robot includes receiving image data from an image capture device of the robot. The image data is representative of a glyph viewed by the image capture device on the display of a computing device within a field of view of the image capture device. The method further includes determining, at a controller, a command message based on the glyph represented in the image data and issuing a command to at least one resource or component of the robot based on the command message.

Commanding a mobile robot using glyphs

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Rogelio Manfred Neumann