An example autonomous coverage robot comprises a body, a drive system disposed on the body and configured to maneuver the robot, a cleaning assembly configured to engage a floor surface while the robot is maneuvered across the floor surface, the cleaning a...

A method of navigating an autonomous coverage robot (100,212,302) between bounded areas. A navigation beacon (150,202,203,304) is positioned in a gateway (210) between adjoining first and second bounded areas (204;206). The beacon is configured to transmit...

An autonomous coverage including a chassis, a drive system and a floor proximity sensor carried by the chassis and configured to detect a floor surface below the robot, wherein the floor proximity sensor includes a beam emitter and a beam receiver responsi...

A power-saving robot system (100) includes at least one peripheral device (102) to be placed in an environment with a mobile robot (104). The peripheral device has a controller (1026) with an active mode (938) in which the peripheral device is fully operat...

A power-saving robot system (100) includes at least one peripheral device (102) to be placed in an environment with a mobile robot (104). The peripheral device has a controller (1026) with an active mode (938) in which the peripheral device is fully operat...

A power-saving robot system (100) includes at least one peripheral device (102) to be placed in an environment with a mobile robot (104). The peripheral device has a controller (1026) with an active mode (938) in which the peripheral device is fully operat...

A charging device of a robot cleaner is provided. The charging device of a robot cleaner according to the embodiment includes at least one cover forming an appearance of the charging device, a base which is coupled with the cover and includes a terminal un...

The method involves performing an automatic division of a total area (BG) of a floor into subsections (T1-T8) according to a predetermined area size of geometric primitives, and different floor coverings, where the geometric primitives are in square, circl...