Net-mobile embodied agents

The Talking Heads experiment currently being conducted at Sony CSL Paris implements a network of mobile cognitive agents. Each node of the network consists of a workstation with two digital cameras through which the agents can perceive the world. When installed on a node, agents construct classifications of what they ’see’ through the cameras and interact with each other to develop a simple language for communicating their representations to each other. Travel between the nodes takes place over the Internet, using standard communications protocols.