The `Environmental Puppeteer' Revisited: A Connectionist Perspective on Autonomy´.

Today's `autonomous´robots only have very limited autonomy and are in fact very much under the control of the `environmental puppeteer', i.e their behaviour is determined, via virtual strings, by e ...

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