The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a robot, a method and an apparatus for providing service and an electronic device. The method comprises: creating, by a local robot, a file system snapshot of an application in a local operating system, and synchronizing file system data of the application to a cloud robot; running, by the cloud robot, on a cloud virtual machine pre-running the same operating system as that of the local robot, the same application as that of the local robot (101); and reversely synchronizing a running result of the application to the local robot (102).