Interactive autonomous robot configured for deployment within a social environment

A robot system configured to enact a performance, including:

• one or more memories storing at least one software module;
• and
• one or more processors that, upon executing the at least one software module,
• are configured to perform the steps of:
• determining an initial set of operations that the robot should execute to enact a first performance, wherein each operation included in the initial set of operations is derived from a different in-character behavior associated with a first character,
• determining a first degree to which a first subsystem included in a plurality of subsystems included in the robot is available when the robot enacts the first performance,
• determining, based on the first degree and a dependency between the first subsystem and at least one operation that is included in the initial set of operations and that is associated with a first movement or in-character behavior associated with the first character, a metric indicating a second degree to which the robot can perform the at least one operation,
• determining that the metric meets a threshold criterion,
• in response to the metric meeting the threshold criterion, removing the at least one operation from the initial set of operations to generate a remaining set of available operations for enacting the first performance, wherein the remaining set of available operations maintains a plurality of in-character behaviors such that the robot appears in-character while enacting the first performance even after the at least one operation has been removed,
• determining a first operation included in the remaining set of available operations that the robot should execute, and
• causing the robot to execute the first operation.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media that, when executed by one or more processors, causes a robot to enact a performance by performing the steps of:

• determining an initial set of operations that the robot should execute to enact a first performance, wherein each operation included in the initial set of operations is derived from a different in-character behavior associated with a first character;
• determining a first degree to which a first subsystem included in a plurality of subsystems included in the robot is available when the robot enacts the first performance;
• determining, based on the first degree and a dependency between the first subsystem and at least one operation that is included in the initial set of operations and that is associated with a first movement or in-character behavior associated with the first character, a metric indicating a second degree to which the robot can perform the at least one operation;
• determining that the metric meets a threshold criterion;
• in response to the metric meeting the threshold criterion, removing at least one operation from the initial set of operations to generate a remaining set of available operations for enacting the first performance, wherein the remaining set of available operations maintains a plurality of in-character behaviors such that the robot appears in-character while enacting the first performance even after the at least one operation has been removed;
• determining a first operation included in the remaining set of available operations that the robot should execute;
• and
• causing the robot to execute the first operation.