Autonomous robot with on demand teleoperation

A method, comprising:

• operating a robot in an autonomous mode of operation in which the robot autonomously selects a strategy to pick up an item;
• moving the item from an initial location to a destination location using the selected strategy;
• determining whether one or more strategies are available to pick up the item in response to the item being dropped while the item is being moved from the initial location to the destination location;
• determining that a further strategy is not available to pick up the item;
• and
• in response to the determination that the further strategy is not available, entering a human intervention mode of operation.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• operating a robot in an autonomous mode of operation in which the robot autonomously selects a strategy to pick up an item;
• moving the item from an initial location to a destination location using the selected strategy;
• determining whether one or more strategies are available to pick up the item in response to the item being dropped while the item is being moved from the initial location to the destination location;
• determining that a further strategy is not available to pick up the item;
• and
• in response to the determination that the further strategy is not available, entering a human intervention mode of operation.