Computational task offloading

A robot comprising:

• a processor, configured to:
• control a transceiver to send an offload request and a data payload to a first communication node of a plurality of communication nodes from a first location at a first time period, wherein the offload request comprises a task type, representing a type of task to be performed on the data payload;
• control an actuator to cause the robot to travel to a second location;
• and
• receive via the transceiver a result of the processed data payload from a second communication node of the plurality of communication nodes at the second location at a second time period.

A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions which, if executed, cause a processor to:

• instruct a computation node of a plurality of computation nodes to process a data payload received from a robot at a first communication node of a plurality of communication nodes, wherein instructing the computation node of the plurality of computation nodes to process the data payload comprises selecting the computation node based on a capability of the computation node to process a task type, wherein the task type represents a type of task to be performed on the data payload;
• select one or more second communication nodes of the plurality of communication nodes, different from the first communication node, based on a predicted location of the robot;
• and
• instruct the one or more second communication nodes to send a result of the processed data payload to the robot at the predicted location.