Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot

This paper addresses the possibility to use a variety of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven technologies with a humanoid service robot without the need to have a deeper knowledge of the respective AI technology. Application interfaces are used that are capable to exchange data between the robot and highly complex AI services running on a remote server. Such application programming interfaces (APIs) can be applied by users who have little or no experience with the linked AI techniques. The consequences would be a reduction of barriers in the sense of AI democratization for in-house developers lacking special expertise and the facilitation of development for a wider user base including those without specialized knowledge of AI. We describe some application examples in a generic case study, how they are built and the different APIs that are used. Technical problems and limitations of our attempts are also mentioned.