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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2023
Matic Robots, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Anshuman Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthik Chandrashekaraiah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Elio Madonia, Mountain View, CA (US);
William George Plummer, London, GB;
Tristan Pierre Gervais, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishal Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
MATIC ROBOTS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An autonomous vacuum includes mopping and sweeping functionalities. A magnetic locking system secures a cleaning head of the autonomous vacuum into a mopping position when in a mopping state, allowing the vacuum to move a mop roller back and forth to scrub stubborn stains on a floor surface without the cleaning head shifting into an alternate sweeping position. The autonomous vacuum also includes snorkel ducts to direct fluid waste and water from the mop roller to a waste bag without mixing the fluid waste with dry waste collected by a sweeping system. The snorkel ducts are configured to kink shut when the cleaning head is in a sweeping state, to avoid unnecessary suction through the snorkel system. Additionally, the mopping system includes cleaning logic routines that can sense and control mop roller saturation and drying, and that can perform automatic mop cleaning.