An embodied agent has some form of visible or tangible representation, either digital such as a graphical face, or physical such as a robot. While some agents are invisible, apparent only due to their actions on the world, embodied agents are apparent as entities in theor own right and may often be directly addressed.
Used in Chap. 16: page 256; Chap. 19: pages 315, 320; Chap. 23: page 384
Also known as embodiment, embodied, embodied agents
EAGER represented as a cat icon – an early example of an embodied software agent (image from "EAGER: Programming Repetitive Tasks by Example" Allen Cypher (1991)},