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<p>Enabling robots to swiftly, robustly and efficiently interact with a dynamic environment remains a key challenge. The robotic community can draw inspiration from the co-adaptation and synergistic interplay between animals’ brains and bodies, which underpins embodied intelligence. Soft robots and neuromorphic technology offer a natural solution for such a challenge, enabling low-power, material-based and event-driven sensorimotor processing and control that seamlessly handles the continuous dynamic demands of embodied agents. In this Perspective, we propose a comprehensive framework for benchmarking neuromorphic computing (brain) that control soft robots (body), based on a suite of tasks, essential metrics and a reproducible robotic platform. The goal is to allow researchers to evaluate their embodied neuromorphic system with a physical robot, in real-world scenarios. The robotic platform is accessible, open-source, modular and scalable, so task complexity can be gradually increased, fostering a standardized approach. By coupling metrics with physical implementations, this framework will drive progress in soft robotics, neuromorphic computing and embodied intelligence.</p>

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A benchmarking framework for embodied neuromorphic agents

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年3月11日

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  • Giulia D’Angelo,
  • Jens E. Pedersen,
  • Taimoor Hassan,
  • Matteo Cianchetti,
  • Josh Bongard,
  • Fumiya Iida,
  • Giacomo Indiveri,
  • Matej Hoffmann,
  • Cecilia Laschi,
  • Chiara De Luca,
  • Chiara Bartolozzi,
  • Elisa Donati

摘要

Enabling robots to swiftly, robustly and efficiently interact with a dynamic environment remains a key challenge. The robotic community can draw inspiration from the co-adaptation and synergistic interplay between animals’ brains and bodies, which underpins embodied intelligence. Soft robots and neuromorphic technology offer a natural solution for such a challenge, enabling low-power, material-based and event-driven sensorimotor processing and control that seamlessly handles the continuous dynamic demands of embodied agents. In this Perspective, we propose a comprehensive framework for benchmarking neuromorphic computing (brain) that control soft robots (body), based on a suite of tasks, essential metrics and a reproducible robotic platform. The goal is to allow researchers to evaluate their embodied neuromorphic system with a physical robot, in real-world scenarios. The robotic platform is accessible, open-source, modular and scalable, so task complexity can be gradually increased, fostering a standardized approach. By coupling metrics with physical implementations, this framework will drive progress in soft robotics, neuromorphic computing and embodied intelligence.