Irobot Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

William Morris

Jonathan Howard Biddle

Thomas Burns

Paul Douglas Grearson

Douglas Dell'Accio

Flavia Pastore

Andrew Vincent Wolff

Mark Graziani

Leo Torrente

John P O'Brien

Vazgen Karapetyan

Douglas Dell Accio

Video doorbell

A mobile robot system includes a docking station and a mobile robot. The docking station includes a platform, first and second charging contacts on the platform, and first and second ramp features on the platform. The robot includes a housing, first and second drive wheels, first and second raised charging contacts on a bottom of the housing, and a cleaning module including at least one rotatable cleaning head that extends below the bottom of the housing. The robot is movable from an approach position with the robot spaced apart from a front of the platform to a docked position with the robot on the platform and the docking station charging contacts engaged with the robot charging contacts. As the robot moves from the approach position to the docked position, the robot engages the first and second ramp features and the cleaning mechanism is lifted over the docking station charging contacts.

Mobile robot docking systems and methods

A method for docking an autonomous mobile floor cleaning robot with a charging dock, the robot including a receiver coil and a structured light sensor, the charging dock including a docking bay and a transmitter coil, includes: positioning the robot in a prescribed docked position in the docking bay using the structured light sensor and by sensing a magnetic field emanating from the transmitter coil; and thereafter induction charging the robot using the receiver coil and the transmitter coil with the robot in the docked position.

Autonomous robot auto-docking and energy management systems and methods

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William Morris