Selectively downloading targeted object recognition modules

A system comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:

• operating, by one or more processors integral with a robot, an object recognition client to facilitate object recognition for the robot;
• determining an assigned task to be performed by the robot;
• determining one or more expected objects or object types associated with the assigned task;
• based on the assigned task and subsequent to the determining, downloading, to the robot by the object recognition client, from the remote computing system, one or more targeted object recognition modules, wherein each targeted object recognition module is usable by the object recognition client to calculate, at the robot, an object type or pose of an observed object, and wherein the one or more targeted object recognition modules are selected from a library of targeted object recognition modules that is remote from the robot based at least in part on one or more of the expected objects or object types associated with the assigned task to be performed by the robot;
• obtaining, by the object recognition client, from one or more vision sensors integral with the robot, vision data capturing, from a perspective of the robot, at least a portion of the second area;
• determining, at the robot by the object recognition client, based on the vision data and the one or more downloaded object recognition modules, information about an object in the second area that is detected in the vision data captured by the one or more vision sensors integral with the robot;
• and
• operating the robot to perform the assigned task.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:

• operating, by one or more processors integral with a robot, an object recognition client to facilitate object recognition for the robot;
• determining an assigned task to be performed by the robot;
• determining one or more expected objects or object types associated with the assigned task;
• based on the assigned task and subsequent to the determining, downloading, to the robot by the object recognition client, from the remote computing system, one or more targeted object recognition modules, wherein each targeted object recognition module is usable by the object recognition client to calculate, at the robot, an object type or pose of an observed object, and wherein the one or more targeted object recognition modules are selected from a library of targeted object recognition modules that is remote from the robot based at least in part on one or more of the expected objects or object types associated with the assigned task to be performed by the robot;
• obtaining, by the object recognition client, from one or more vision sensors integral with the robot, vision data capturing, from a perspective of the robot, at least a portion of the second area;
• determining, at the robot by the object recognition client, based on the vision data and the one or more downloaded object recognition modules, information about an object in the second area that is detected in the vision data captured by the one or more vision sensors integral with the robot;
• and
• operating the robot to perform the assigned task.