Embodied Autonomous Software Agents used to Remotely Monitor and Control Targeted Individuals

Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (NCPSs) are typically designed as a network of interacting nodes that sense and affect their environments [14]. NCPSs are the next generation of
distributed embedded systems.
source:
http://cedric.cnam.fr/fichiers/art_3218.pdf

Computational cognitive models are used to build process models of human cognitive skills, and those models are then used as as reasoning mechanisms on the robots and autonomous systems. We build computational cognitive models of people -- their perception, their memory, their attention, their reasoning, their spatial abilities, and their thinking. Computational systems are based on theories of how human reasoning work, and which capture known facts and constraints known about how the mind works, and connect well with psychological data (experiments) and neuroscience data (fMRI).
source:
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/aic/content/cognitive-robotics-and-human-robot-interaction