Patent ID: 6859682

Claim:
A pet robot charging system comprising a pet robot and a charging apparatus, said pet robot comprising: an image-capturing section for capturing an image of an object; an image-capturing control section for controlling image-capturing by said image-capturing section in response to a predetermined image-capturing instruction; a storage section for storing image data obtained by image-capturing by said image-capturing section; a moving portion for autonomously traveling in a work space, a battery as a power source; a communication section for transmitting said image data, and for receiving charging position information representing a position to charge said battery, and a reception completion signal for transmission of said image data; a setting section for setting an erasure confirmation state in order to input confirmation for erasure of the image data corresponding to the reception completion signal from the storage section, when said reception completion signal has been received; and a control section for controlling said communication section to transmit said image data after said moving portion is controlled based on said charging position information, and for controlling the erasure of said image data from said storage section based on said reception completion signal and the confirmation input by said setting section, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and said charging apparatus comprising: a transmitting/receiving section transmitting said charging position information, receiving said image data transmitted from said communication section, and transmitting said reception completion signal expressing the completion of reception of the image data; a charging section for charging said battery; and a storage section for storing the image data received by said transmitting/receiving section.