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Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2022
Applicant:

Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Clements, Pasadena, CA (US);

Varun Malhotra, Cambridge, MA (US);

Landon Unninayar, Waltham, MA (US);

Brian Cleve Benson, Jr., Chelmsford, MA (US);

Andrew Graziani, Portsmouth, NH (US);

Shiwei Wang, Nashua, NH (US);

Thomas C. Chang, Lexington, MA (US);

Dan Wivagg, Westford, MA (US);

Assignee:

iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 9/00 (2006.01); A47L 11/30 (2006.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); A47L 11/30 (2013.01); A47L 11/4061 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01); A47L 2201/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include navigating the mobile cleaning robot within an environment. Whether a movement condition is satisfied can be determined and a mopping pad tray can be moved relative to a body of the mobile cleaning robot between a cleaning position and a stored position in response to receipt of a command to move the mopping pad tray when the movement condition is satisfied.


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