A vacuum cleaner includes an upright handle assembly, a foot assembly adapted to be moved along a surface to be cleaned and having a suction nozzle, a multi-axis joint swivelably mounting the upright handle assembly to the foot assembly and defining a first axis about which the upright handle assembly twists relative to the foot assembly and a second axis about which the upright handle assembly pivot relative to the foot assembly, and a detachable vacuum module supported on the upright handle assembly by the module platform.

A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaning appliance includes an agitator assembly including a cylindrical body configured to rotate about its longitudinal axis; a main body defining an agitator chamber within which is supported the agitator assembly and a suction opening through which a portion of the agitator assembly engages a surface to be cleaned. The main body has opposing ends and a first exhaust channel in fluid communication with the agitator chamber. The main body is configured such that the cross-sectional area of the agitator chamber increases in a direction from one of the opposing ends of the agitator chamber towards the first exhaust channel.

A removable rotatable driven agitator is used in a surface cleaning head and is driven by a drive mechanism that axially engages a driven end of the agitator. The removable rotatable driven agitator may be located in an openable agitator chamber for purposes of removing debris and/or removing the agitator. The openable agitator chamber may be covered by an external cover that is movable between an open position and a closed position. The removable agitator may be secured in the agitator chamber by the external cover. The removable rotatable agitator may have an end cap mounted on a rotatable bushing at a non-driven end and may have a splined driven member at the driven end to engage a splined drive member on the drive mechanism.

A cleaning robot includes a top cover, a bottom cover formed below the top cover and configured to move by external force, a fixed body provided in the bottom cover, a first opening formed in an upper portion of the bottom cover and a first sensor connected to the fixed body and externally exposed between the top cover and the bottom cover through the first opening.

A cleaning robot includes a housing assembly, a roller brush, a driving module, a dust box, a suction device, a power supply battery and two travelling modules. The housing assembly has a front end and a rear end, and a bottom of the housing assembly is recessed to form a mounting cavity. The roller brush is rotatably arranged in the mounting cavity and can be driven to rotate by the driving module. The two travelling modules are arranged at the rear end of the housing assembly and are spaced from the roller brush in a front-rear direction of the housing assembly.

Provided is a robot including: a chassis; wheels; electric motors; a network card; sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: capturing, with at least one exteroceptive sensor, a first image and a second image; determining, with the processor, an overlapping area of the first image and the second image by comparing the raw pixel intensity values of the first image to the raw pixel intensity values of the second image; combining, with the processor, the first image and the second image at the overlapping area to generate a digital spatial representation of the environment; and estimating, with the processor using a statistical ensemble of simulated positions of the robot, a corrected position of the robot to replace a last known position of the robot within the digital spatial representation of the environment.

A vacuum cleaner having a hand unit and an elongated member having a nozzle end portion and a handle end portion. The vacuum cleaner has a valve arranged at the nozzle end portion, the valve having a valve member being movable between a first and a second position. In the first position the valve member directs an airflow from a floor nozzle to the hand unit while preventing an airflow to flow through the handle end portion. In the second position the valve member directs the airflow from the floor nozzle to the handle end portion and to the hand unit. Vacuum cleaning may be performed with the floor nozzle both when the hand unit is connected at the nozzle end and at the handle end.

A rolling brush assembly includes a rolling brush having a rolling brush roller, at least two brush bars, and a protruding strip extending lengthwise along an axis. Each brush bar extends lengthwise in a longitudinal direction of the rolling brush roller. The brush bars are arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the rolling brush roller with the protruding strip located between adjacent two brush bars. The at least two brush bars are fixed on the rolling brush roller in one of a flocking or an inserting manner. An engagement portion is formed between the brush bars and the rolling brush roller. A distance from an outer end of the engagement portion to the axis is less than a distance from an outer end of the protruding strip to the axis.

A cleaner includes a body including an insertion slot facing a floor and an installation space inside the body. The cleaner includes a dust housing detachably connected to the body. The dust housing includes a collection opening surface and a storage space that stores foreign substances collected through the collection opening surface. The cleaner has an agitator rotatably connected to the dust housing and exposed through the collection opening surface. The cleaner also includes a driving apparatus that rotates a driving coupler, which drives a driven coupler coupled to the agitator. The cleaner includes a lever located on either the driving coupler or the driven coupler. The lever selectively attaches or separates the driving coupler and the driven coupler. Manipulating the lever separates the driving coupler and the driven coupler and allows the sweep module including the agitator to be removed through the insertion slot in the body.

A vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The vacuum cleaner according to the present disclosure includes a main body and a suction nozzle. The suction nozzle includes a housing, a driver, a rotating brush, and a detachable cover. A pressing button is mounted in the housing. The detachable cover is rotated about the rotational axis of the rotating brush to be mounted in the housing. The pressing button selectively blocks rotation of the detachable cover.