Experiences in Neurorobotics for intelligent assistive robots

The last few years have seen the birth of a new interdisciplinary research field: the neurorobotics. The main objective of neurorobotics is the development of techniques and technologies to provide robotic devices, such as robots, prosthesis or exoskeletons, with the capacity of measuring and understanding human intention in order to assist the execution of a task or action. This capacity requires both the ability of detecting motion intention and the ability of predicting the desired motion from neurophysiological signals. Finally, it is of fundamental importance, from our perspectives, that the robotic device integrates these information with the knowledge of the task and the environment in order to modify in real-time its behavior and maximizing the efficacy of the provided assistance.