Mobile robot cleaning system

This invention describes a way to control a mobile cleaning robot using a smartphone or tablet. A user points their device's camera at a room and taps on the screen to indicate a specific spot. The device uses augmented reality to understand where that spot is in the real world, then translates that information into commands for the robot, allowing the user to direct the robot by simply pointing at locations in their environment.

Why it matters: Since 2023, augmented reality toolkits and underlying SLAM algorithms have significantly matured, offering more robust and accurate real-time spatial mapping. This makes the core coordinate system mapping and AR interaction described in the claims more reliable and easier to implement on standard mobile devices.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedSoftware logic, AR toolkit integration

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