Systems and methods for dynamically offloading robotic computation to the cloud

A method for operating a mobile robot, the method comprising:

• receiving, with a local processing system of the mobile robot, input data with respect to which a computation task is to be performed;
• determining whether the computation task is to be offloaded to a remote processing system for computation depending on whether the computation task relates to performance of a task requiring coordination between the mobile robot and at least one other mobile robot;
• in response to determining that the computation task is to be offloaded to the remote processing system for computation, (i) transmitting, with a transceiver of the mobile robot, a message to the remote processing system, the message including the input data, and (ii) receiving, with the transceiver, an output of the computation task from the remote processing system;
• in response to determining that the computation task is not to be offloaded to the remote processing system for computation, determining the output of the computation task using the local processing system;
• and
• operating, with the local processing system, the mobile robot based on the output of the computation task.