This article provides an overview of such embodied agents that reason about the body, e.g., self-reconfiguring robots, and
of research into recognizing a body part as belonging to one’s own body, on the part of robotic agents (vs. animals). More
sketchily, we also consider such animated avatars whose movements imitate human body movements, and virtual models of the
human body.
Keywords Embodied agents - Virtual models - Human body - Self-reconfiguring robots