{"id":161,"date":"2022-05-23T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuromorphicrobotics.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:29:19","slug":"what-is-neurorobotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"What is Neurorobotics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conception and meaning of Neurorobotics are introduced in this chapter ( Tiffany J. Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar. Neurorobotics: Neuroscience and Robots. In Cognitive Robotics, MIT Press, 2022.\uff09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The field of neurorobotics<\/strong><\/span> is the subarea of Cognitive Robotics that centers on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the use of computational neuroscience and neuromorphic systems to control the robot\u2019s behavior and cognitive system<\/strong> <\/span>(Browne et al. 2009; Krichmar 2012; see also chapter 2). This followed the early Darwin mobile robot models in the mid-1990s (Edelman et al. 1992) and led to numerous applications to mobile and humanoid robots, including<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong>the use of a neuromorphic system directly implementing hardware with neuron-like circuits<\/strong><\/span> (Rast et al. 2018) and the more recent neurorobotic platform in the Human Brain Project (Knoll and Gewaltig 2016).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Neurorobotics is the study of the interaction between neural systems and their physical embodiments on robotic platforms<\/span>.<\/strong> Since the brain is strongly coupled with the body and situated within the surrounding environment, neurorobots can be a powerful tool for studying the intricate interactions between neural systems and the outside world. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Neurorobotics also serves as a way to create autonomous systems that capture the advantages of biology for intelligent behavior.<\/strong><\/span> Compared to the general study of cognitive robotics, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>neurorobotics centers around biological brain functions<\/strong><\/span>\u2014for example, the neural circuitry and functional anatomy that support basic cognitive processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For further info, please visit the site (<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/cognitive-robotics\">Cognitive Robotics Book<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">References:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tiffany J. Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar. <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/cognitive-robotics\"><strong>Neurorobotics: Neuroscience and Robots<\/strong><\/a>. In Angelo Cangelosi\u00a0and\u00a0Minoru Asada. <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/cognitive-robotics\"><strong>Cognitive Robotics<\/strong><\/a>, MIT Press, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conception and meaning of Neurorobotics are introduced in this chapter ( Tiffany J. Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar. Neurorobotics: Neuroscience and Robots. In Cognitive Robotics, MIT Press, 2022.\uff09 &#8220;The field of neurorobotics is the subarea of Cognitive Robotics that centers on the use of computational neuroscience and neuromorphic systems to control the robot\u2019s behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuromorphic-robotics","tag-neuromorphic-robotics","tag-neurorobotics","tag-neuroscience","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}