Systems and methods for short- and long-term dialog management between a robot computing device/digital companion and a user

A method of managing conversations between a robot computing device and a user, comprising:

• accessing computer-readable instructions from one or more memory devices for execution by one or more processors of the robot computing device;
• executing the computer-readable instructions accessed from the one or more memory devices by the one or more processors of the robot computing device;
• and
• wherein executing the computer-readable instructions further comprising:
• initiating a first-time user experience sequence with a user;
• teaching the user the robot computing device capabilities and/or characteristics by communicating one or more global commands utilized by the robot computing device to the user via the one or more speakers to teach the user how to communicate verbally with the robot computing device;
• initiating, utilizing a dialog manager module, a conversation with the user;
• receiving, one or more command files from the user via one or more microphones;
• and
• generating one or more conversation response files and communicating the generated one or more conversation files to the dialog manager in response to the one or more received user command files to initiate an initial conversation exchange.