1. A method of operating a robot, the method comprising: maneuvering the robot about a scene; capturing images of the scene along a drive direction of the robot, the images comprising at least one of a three-dimensional depth image, an active illumination image, or an ambient illumination image; receiving sensor data indicative of the scene, the sensor data comprising the images; communicating the sensor data from the robot to a cloud computing service that processes the received sensor data into a process resultant, the process resultant comprising an indoor or outside street view of the scene comprising reference locations marked thereon; receiving the process resultant at the robot from the cloud computing service; and maneuvering the robot in the scene based on the received process resultant, wherein the cloud computing service further provides a 2-D map to the robot, the cloud computing service computing the 2-D map from a 3-D map, wherein the 2-D map indicates obstacles or hazards to the robot.