An automated floor planning and installation system. The system includes an autonomous robot device equipped with sensors that measure floor surfaces and detect obstacles. The sensor data is transmitted to a floor planning control system, which generates a detailed floor plan, including dimensions, boundaries, and obstacle locations. The robot device incorporates a blade system that autonomously cuts the flooring material according to the floor plan, ensuring precise cuts without manual intervention. The floor plan can be stored in the robot device's memory, allowing for easy access during installation. In one embodiment, the system also provides recommendations for suitable flooring materials based on user preferences and requirements.

An automated floor planning and installation system. The system includes an autonomous robot device equipped with sensors that measure floor surfaces and detect obstacles. The sensor data is transmitted to a floor planning control system, which generates a detailed floor plan, including dimensions, boundaries, and obstacle locations. The robot device incorporates a blade system that autonomously cuts the flooring material according to the floor plan, ensuring precise cuts without manual intervention. The floor plan can be stored in the robot device's memory, allowing for easy access during installation. In one embodiment, the system also provides recommendations for suitable flooring materials based on user preferences and requirements.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for treating a tumor with positively charged particles, comprising the steps of: (1) transporting the positively charged particles sequentially from an accelerator, along a beam transport path, through a nozzle system, and along a treatment beam path and (2) while scanning the treatment beam path along each of a set of vectors for treating the tumor, on average for the set of vectors, intentionally deviating the treatment beam path from a current vector of the set of vectors off of the current vector by at least one-eighth of a treatment beam diameter at least once for every twenty movements of the treatment beam.

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for adjusting a hardness of a floor covering. Aspects include monitoring a user on the floor covering and detecting a triggering event associated with the user. Aspects also include adjusting a parameter of the floor covering, wherein the adjustment decreases the hardness of the floor covering.

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for adjusting a hardness of a floor covering. Aspects include monitoring a user on the floor covering and detecting a triggering event associated with the user. Aspects also include adjusting a parameter of the floor covering, wherein the adjustment decreases the hardness of the floor covering.

A floor panel for forming a floor covering wherein the floor panel is substantially realized on the basis of synthetic material. The floor panel is rectangular and comprises a first pair of opposite edges and a second pair of opposite edges such that both pairs of opposite edges comprise coupling parts allowing for mutually coupling a plurality of such floor panels to each other. The coupling parts of at least the first pair of opposite edges are configured such that two of such panels can be coupled to each other at these edges by means of a turning movement and the coupling parts to this aim consist of a tongue and a groove as well as locking parts, which, in the coupled condition, prevent the shifting apart of tongue and groove. The floor panel has a global thickness which is smaller than or equal to 4.5 millimeters.

A flooring system combines a dimensionally stabilized sub-floor laminate with a dimensionally stabilized tile laminate, the sub-floor laminate and the tile laminate being held together by magnetic attraction. In one embodiment one or other of the laminates is magnetic, and the other has a ferromagnetic engagement sheet. In another embodiment, a magnetic intermediate sheet is placed between ferromagnetic strata of the two laminates. The tile laminate may include ceramic tiles, which may be glass or porcelain. Those tiles are substantially rigid. They have flat ground edges to provide abutting matching fit with adjacent tiles. On assembly, neither mortar nor grouting is employed. The sub-floor has pre-defined mounting hardware accommodations that permit the fasteners not to interfere with the flatness and fit-up of the laminates.

Provided is a panel, in particular a floor panel, suitable for forming a floor covering. The panel has a substantially planar top side, a substantially planar bottom side, at least four substantially linear side edges each including at least one pair of opposite side edges, preferably provided with locking means.

A set of floor panels includes floor panels that are oblong rectangular and have a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges. The long and the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling parts, which allow coupling the floor panels of the set to each other such that a herringbone pattern can be realized herewith.

Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.