SoftMan and agent

SoftMan is a new concept based on the production of distributed technique, intelligent robot and artificial life. SoftMan is the development of a mobile agent and is a virtual robot in the network environment. It inherited many research fruits of robot and agent. Therefore, it has the essential features of the intelligent robot and agent, and at the same time has life features. Comparing with the agent, SoftMan not only has more all-around humanized intelligence, humanized behavior and function, but also has the ability of environment identification, self-determination and free will. SoftMan has some digital life features which agent has none, such as activity, learning and evolution, inheritance, variation and emotion. The corresponding theory and technology fruits provided a good foundation and reference for studying SoftMan. At first, this paper introduces the technology of SoftMan and agent, and then discusses the relationship between SoftMan and agent from the viewpoint of structure model, function, implementation technique, and application example.