System for spot cleaning by a mobile robot

A mobile cleaning robot comprising:

• one or more processing devices configured to generate an indication that a location on a floor surface was not cleaned by the mobile cleaning robot;
• a communication module configured to receive an indication of a user-defined path from a first location to a second location on the floor surface, wherein the second location corresponds to the location that was not cleaned by the mobile cleaning robot;
• a drive operable to move the mobile cleaning robot across the floor surface along the user-defined path from the first location to the second location;
• and
• a cleaning assembly configured to clean the floor surface at the second location.

A system for enabling spot cleaning, the system comprising:

• a mobile computing device comprising at least one data processor communicatively coupled to a storage device storing processor-executable instructions, in which upon execution of the processor-executable instructions by the at least one data processor, the at least one data processor is configured to transmit, to a mobile cleaning robot, an indication of a user-defined path from a first location to a second location on a floor surface, and
• the mobile cleaning robot comprising:
• one or more processing devices configured to generate an indication that a location on the floor surface was not cleaned by the mobile cleaning robot;
• a communication module configured to receive, from the mobile computing device, the indication of the user-defined path from the first location to the second location on the floor surface, wherein the second location corresponds to the location that was not cleaned by the mobile cleaning robot;
• a drive operable to move the mobile cleaning robot along the user-defined path from the first location to the second location;
• and
• a cleaning assembly configured to clean the floor surface at the second location.