What does SLAM support do for robotic vacuum cleaners?
Lots of guides and specifications for robotic vacuum cleaners like the Roomba, Xiaomi Roborock, Dyson, etc. talk about the product being "SLAM-based" without offering any explanation as to what that is. Well, SLAM stands for Simultaneous localization and mapping and it is used in robotics to, as the name suggests, construct and update a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an robot's location within it.
