| Property | Other Names | Meaning |
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| reactive | (sensing and acting) | responds in a timely fashion to changes in the environment
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| autonomous | | exercises control over its own actions
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| goal-oriented | pro-active purposeful | does not simply act in response to the environment
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| temporally continuous | | is a continuously running process
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| communicative | socially able | communicates with other agents, perhaps including people
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| learning | adaptive | changes its behavior based on its previous experience
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| mobile | | able to transport itself from one machine to another
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| flexible | | actions are not scripted
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| character | | believable "personality" and emotional state.
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