Executing software applications on a robot

A method of handling a software application on a humanoid robot, said robot comprising a plurality of installed software applications, a software application being associated with a predefined semantic description, the method comprising the steps of:

• extracting one or more patterns from an audio dialog with a human user, an audio dialog comprising sentences and a pattern comprising predefined sentences;
• comparing said one or more patterns with the semantic descriptions of said software applications, the semantic descriptions comprising one or more pre-fabricated dialogs associated with a software application, said pre-fabricated dialogs comprising variations describing the software application;
• selecting a software application based on the performed comparisons;
• executing the selected software application, wherein
• at least one installed software application is associated with one or more execution rules and the step of selecting a software application comprises verifying said one or more rules;
• the humanoid robot does not comprise a graphical user interface,
• the dialog comprises a request by the user of the robot to pronounce a list of installed software applications, and
• the list to be pronounced by the robot is dependent on parameters associated with the perceived environment of the robot.