An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control
system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for
performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries cleaning
elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning
surface. The cleaning elements include a jet port disposed on a
transverse edge of the robot and configured to blow a jet of air across a
cleaning width of the robot towards the opposite transverse edge and a
vacuum intake port is disposed on the robot opposed to the jet port to
suction up loose particulates blown across the cleaning width by the jet
port.