Robot mops, like robot vacuums, have been a point of contention for as long as I can remember. Are they really more effective than simply using a vacuum cleaner and a regular mop or spin mop? The ...

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I’ve used far too many robot vacuums for a 20-something year-old. Of all the ones I’ve tried over the years, Eufy’s Omni S1 Pro is the most reliable. It’s also super powerful, hardly ever leaving any ...

Abstract: Omnidirectional mobile robots (OMRs) are widely recognized in the industry for their excellent maneuverability and flexibility, particularly when navigating complex environments. Standard ...

Abstract: In the robotics community, it has been a longstanding challenge for quadrupeds to achieve highly explosive movements similar to their biological counterparts. In this work, we introduce a ...

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This is a controller (local trajectory planner) for human-aware navigation based on MPC for optimizing a robot local path among people. This plugin implements the nav2_core::Controller interface ...