公开(公告)号：US20180161980A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15836742

申请日：2017-12-08

Applicant: A&K Robotics Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Henry ANDERSON ,  Jessica Hil-Yin YIP ,  Anson Yan Shun KUNG ,  Ranjit Singh KHANGURA

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06Q20/08 ,  G06Q20/14 ,  G06Q40/00 ,  B25J11/00

Abstract: Methods and systems for billing the use of a robot, including methods and systems for reducing a robot's functionality based on a user's account information. In some embodiments, the system comprises a computer readable memory comprising a database with a user's account information, a processor operably coupled to the computer readable memory and to a robot, a checking application stored on the computer readable memory and executable by the processor for determining if the user's account is active based on the account data and a functionality reducing application stored on the computer readable memory executable by the processor for reducing the robot's functionality to a reduced state if the checking application determines the user's account is not active and limiting the robot's functionality to the reduced state until the checking application determines that the user's account is active.

公开(公告)号：US20200315421A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16821610

申请日：2020-03-17

Applicant: A&K Robotics Inc.

Inventor： Anson Yan Shun KUNG ,  Andrew Chu-Shuan LIU ,  Jessica Hil-Yin YIP ,  Matthew Henry ANDERSON ,  Ranjit Singh KHANGURA

IPC: A47L11/29 ,  G01N21/55 ,  A47L11/40 ,  G08B21/18 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for providing a notification of a wet floor are provided. A scrubbing robot for scrubbing a floor and having one or more liquid carrying components has a sensor coupled to it positioned for collecting data about an area of the floor proximate to the scrubbing robot and along a path over which the robot has travelled. An application is stored on the computer for determining that liquid is on the floor by analysing the data for a presence of a second set of parameters corresponding to or crossing (from above to below or from below to above) a set of threshold parameters that is indicative of the presence of liquid on the floor. A notification module coupled to the scrubbing robot issues at least one of a human detectable and a computer detectable notification in response to the application determining that liquid is on the floor.