{"id":253,"date":"2023-02-18T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuromorphicrobotics.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:18:23","slug":"when-neuro-robots-go-wrong%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"When neuro-robots go wrong\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan, Muhammad Salar, and James Leland Olds. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fnbot.2023.1112839\"><strong>When Neuro-robots Go Wrong: A Review<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Volume 17,2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Neuro-robots are a class of autonomous machines that, in their architecture, mimic aspects of the human brain and cognition<\/span><\/strong>. As such, they represent unique artifacts created by humans based on human understanding of healthy human brains. European Union\u2019s Convention on Roboethics 2025 states that the design of all robots (including neuro-robots) must include provisions for the complete traceability of the robots\u2019 actions, analogous to an aircraft\u2019s flight data recorder. At the same time, one can anticipate rising instances of neuro-robotic failure, as they operate on imperfect data in real environments, and the underlying AI behind such neuro-robots has yet to achieve explainability. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This paper reviews the trajectory of the technology used in neuro-robots and accompanying failures<\/span><\/strong>. The failures demand an explanation. While drawing on existing explainable AI research, we argue explainability in AI limits the same in neuro-robots.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> In order to make robots more explainable, we suggest potential pathways for future research<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan, Muhammad Salar, and James Leland Olds. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fnbot.2023.1112839\"><strong>When Neuro-robots Go Wrong: A Review<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Volume 17,2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan, Muhammad Salar, and James Leland Olds. &#8220;When Neuro-robots Go Wrong: A Review.&#8221; Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Volume 17,2023 Abstract &#8220;Neuro-robots are a class of autonomous machines that, in their architecture, mimic aspects of the human brain and cognition. As such, they represent unique artifacts created by humans based on human understanding of healthy human brains. [&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":[66,67,65,64,63],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuromorphic-robotics","tag-explainable","tag-explainable-ai","tag-failures","tag-neuro-robots","tag-neurorobots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}