ROBOTIC TELEPORTATION METHOD AND SYSTEM

An autonomous system comprises an agent, constituting the behavioural identity of a robot, and a supporting device that is a physical installation which can implement the agent. The agent has a state which has a controlling influence on, and changes during, system operation. The agent's state is distinguishable from, and isolatable from, the permanent parts of the supporting device. The supporting device comprises hardware, software components for operating the hardware, software components for maintaining the agent environment and non-changing parts of the agent implementation, and software components for reading/writing the isolable agent state. An extraction module can extract the agent state and transform it into a representation for transmission across a network. An inserting module can insert a received agent state into the supporting device so as to embody a received agent on that supporting device.