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Autonomous monitoring robot systems

  • US 10,471,611 B2
  • Filed: 01/12/2017
  • Issued: 11/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An autonomous mobile robot comprising:

  • a chassis;

    a drive supporting the chassis above a floor surface in a home and configured to move the chassis across the floor surface;

    a variable height member being coupled to the chassis and being vertically extendible;

    a camera supported by the variable height member; and

    a controller configured to perform operations comprising;

    receiving data indicative of a user-selected location and a user-selected height for the variable height member at the user-selected location;

    initiating a patrol routine in which the controlleroperates the drive to navigate the robot to the user-selected location within the home,moves the variable height member to the user-selected height upon the robot reaching the user-selected location, and,while the variable height member is at the user-selected height, operates the camera to capture digital imagery of the home at the user-selected location of the robot within the home, wherein the operations comprise, in a privacy mode, moving the variable height member to a retracted position in which the camera is at least partially inside the robot and is unable to capture images of the home.

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