Mobility surrogates

1. A mobility surrogate comprising:

a humanoid form supporting at least one camera that captures image data from a first physical location in which the first mobility surrogate is disposed to produce an image signal; and

a mobility base that comprises:

a support mechanism, with the humanoid form affixed to the support on the mobility base; and

a transport module comprising:

mechanical drive mechanism; and

a transport control module comprising:

a processor and memory that are configured to

receive control messages from a network; and

process the control messages to control the transport module according to the control messages received from the network; and the mobility surrogate further comprising

an artificial intelligence system that includes a processor device, memory and storage that stores computer instructions to cause an artificial intelligence engine to train the mobility surrogate, with the artificial intelligence engine executing computer instructions to:

observe actions of a human performing a given task in the real world;

analyze observed actions of the human to produce sequences of actions for the given task; and

package the analyzed actions into a sequence package that is stored in computer storage; and

an alias-substitution processing module comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive an image signal;

detect a second mobility surrogate in the image signal; and

replace the image data of the second surrogate in the first physical location, with image data of a user in the first physical location to form a transformed image.

2. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the artificial intelligence engine operates with a database.

3. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the artificial intelligence engine evolves to perform the tasks using the mobility surrogate.

4. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the actions are analyzed and used to train the artificial intelligence engine in the real world, rather than via a training program.

5. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the artificial intelligence engine is a mechanism that assists the human's control of the task.

6. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 further comprises instructions to:

train the artificial intelligence engine by observing the users actions.

7. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein training comprises instructions to:

define a self-organizing map space as a finite two dimensional region of nodes, where the nodes are arranged in a grid; and

associate each node in the grid with a weight vector that is a position in the input space.

8. The mobility surrogate of claim 7 wherein training further comprises instructions to:

apply a training example to the self-organizing map;

randomize the node weight factors in the map;

select a training vector randomly from training data input; and

compute a given training vector's distance from each node in the map; and

compare the node whose weight is closest to that of the training example as the best matching unit.

9. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the artificial intelligence engine is configured to: learn the task to reduce or eliminate latency or delay time or to increase efficiency or reliability of performing the task.

10. The mobility surrogate of claim 9 wherein the delays are bidirectional and can result from propagating of instructions through electronic equipment and communication, networks used to transmit the instructions and the processing time to execute instructions.

11. The mobility surrogate of claim 1 wherein the artificial intelligence engine is built using a self-organizing map or self-organizing feature map, which are types of artificial neural networks trained by unsupervised learning techniques to produce a low-dimensional discretized representation of an input space of training samples.

12. The mobility surrogate of claim 9 , further comprises:

a data center that is configured to accumulate and store skills sets for use with the artificial intelligence engine.

13. The mobility surrogate of claim 12 wherein the artificial intelligence engine downloads the skill sets from the data center.

14. The mobility surrogate of claim 9 , further comprises:

a platform that connects an operator to the mobility surrogate via a network; and

a sensor user interface link.