This article presents the design and the implementation of a cloud system for knowledge-based autonomous interaction devised for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The system is particularly convenient for low-cost robots and devices: it can be used as a stand-alone dialogue system or as an integration to provide "background" dialogue capabilities to any preexisting Natural Language Processing ability that the robot may already have as part of its basic skills. By connecting to the cloud, developers are provided with a sustainable solution to manage verbal interaction through a network connection, with about 3,000 topics of conversation ready for "chit-chatting" and a library of pre-cooked plans that only needs to be grounded into the robot's physical capabilities. The system is structured as a set of REST API endpoints so that it can be easily expanded by adding new APIs to improve the capabilities of the clients connected to the cloud. Another key feature of the system is that it has been designed to make the development of its clients straightforward: in this way, multiple robots and devices can be easily endowed with the capability of autonomously interacting with the user, understanding when to perform specific actions, and exploiting all the information provided by cloud services. The article outlines and discusses the results of the experiments performed to assess the system's performance in terms of response time, paving the way for its use both for research and market solutions. Links to repositories with clients for ROS and popular robots such as Pepper and NAO are available on request.
Embodied Intelligence for Sustainable Flight: A Soaring Robot with Active Morphological Control
Learning and Dynamical Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems（马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所学习与动力系统部门）；Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学生物力学系统建模与仿真研究所）
Transforming Surgical Interventions with Embodied Intelligence for Ultrasound Robotics
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), HKISI-CAS（香港中文大学（深圳）人工智能与机器人中心（HKISI-CAS））；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
Embodied AI in Social Spaces: Responsible and Adaptive Robots in Complex Setting -- UKAIRS 2025 (Copy)
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学计算机科学学院）；School of Computing and Communications, The Open University（开放大学计算与通讯学院）；School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton（南安普顿大学电子与计算机科学学院）；Responsible AI, University of Southampton（南安普顿大学负责任的人工智能）；University of Liverpool（利兹大学）
The Child Factor in Child-Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics
Robert Bosch GmbH（罗伯特·博世有限公司）；Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学）；Örebro University（厄勒布鲁大学）；University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学）；Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）
Enhancing Surgical Robots with Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning
Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院香港创新研究院）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
ManipulationNet: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Real-World Robot Manipulation with Physical Skill Challenges and Embodied Multimodal Reasoning
Rice University（里士大学）；U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology（美国国家标准与技术研究院）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄技术大学）；Autodesk Research（Autodesk研究）；University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；KTH Royal Institute of Technology（皇家理工学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；ASTM International（美国材料与试验协会）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心）；University of Texas at Dallas（德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校）；University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；NVIDIA Research（NVIDIA研究）
Analysis of Mutual and Referential Human and Robot Gazes in a Collaborative Word Association Game
Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学慕尼黑机器人与机器智能研究所 (MIRMI)）；Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University（厄勒布鲁大学应用自主传感器系统中心 (AASS)）；Robotics Insitute Germany (RIG)（德国机器人研究所 (RIG)）
