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This paper describes Cybi, an inexpensive smart companion mobile robot for elderly and disabled people. The software architecture that enables users to perform telepresence and teleoperation tasks with Cybi is based on combining Cloud Computing technologies and Fuzzy Logic. On one hand, the robot can be remotely teleoperated from a thin client by executing a specific module of a distributed software...