Department of Systems Life Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1, Kamisadori-cho, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0816, Japan.
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2020 Dec;42:61-69. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.09.006. Epub 2020 Sep 28.
Recently, insect-machine hybrid robots have been developed that incorporate insects into robots or incorporate machines into insects. Most previous studies were motivated to use the function of insects for robots, but this technology can also prove to be useful as an experimental tool for neuroethology. We reviewed hybrid robots in terms of the closed-loop between an insect, a robot, and the real environment. The incorporated biological components provided the robot sensory signals that were received by the insects and the adaptive functions of the brain. The incorporated artificial components permitted us to understand the biological system by controlling insect behavior. Hybrid robots thus extend the roles of mobile robot experiments in neuroethology for both model evaluation and brain function analysis.
最近，已经开发出了昆虫-机器混合机器人，即将昆虫融入机器人中或将机器融入昆虫中。以前的大多数研究都是为了利用昆虫的功能来制造机器人，但这项技术也可以作为神经行为学的实验工具。我们从昆虫、机器人和真实环境之间的闭环角度来回顾混合机器人。所结合的生物成分提供了机器人接收昆虫的感官信号和大脑的自适应功能。所结合的人工成分使我们能够通过控制昆虫行为来理解生物系统。因此，混合机器人扩展了移动机器人实验在神经行为学中的作用，既可以用于模型评估，也可以用于大脑功能分析。
