Figure 2 - Robots at the tipping point: the road to iRobot Roomba

Rug Warrior was an early floor-cleaning robot. It possessed a simple carpet sweeping mechanism for cleaning, a full coverage bump sensor to allow escape from collisions, and drive wheel-mounted shaft encoders that enabled the robot to follow a simple cleaning pattern. A behavior-based program running on a low-cost microprocessor controlled the robot.

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Robots at the tipping point: the road to iRobot Roomba - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rug-Warrior-was-an-early-floor-cleaning-robot-It-possessed-a-simple-carpet-sweeping_fig1_3344755 [accessed 10 Jun, 2023]

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Figure 2. Rug Warrior was an early floor-cleaning robot. It possessed a simple carpet sweeping mechanism for cleaning, a full coverage bump sensor to allow escape from collisions, and drive wheel-mounted shaft encoders that enabled the robot to follow a simple cleaning pattern. A behavior-based program running on a low-cost microprocessor controlled the robot.

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