自主機(jī)器人報告的理論和應(yīng)用的機(jī)器人系統(tǒng)能夠在一定程度上自給自足。它的特色論文包括現(xiàn)實(shí)世界中實(shí)際機(jī)器人的性能數(shù)據(jù)。覆蓋范圍包括：自主機(jī)器人控制、實(shí)時視覺、自主輪式和履帶式車輛、腿式車輛、自主系統(tǒng)計算架構(gòu)、學(xué)習(xí)、控制和自適應(yīng)分布式架構(gòu)、自主機(jī)器人系統(tǒng)研究、傳感器融合、自主系統(tǒng)理論、地形測繪與識別·機(jī)器人的自校正與自修復(fù)·智能結(jié)構(gòu)的自再現(xiàn)·作為機(jī)器人開發(fā)模型的遺傳算法。重點(diǎn)是運(yùn)動和自給自足的能力，而不是系統(tǒng)是否是生物學(xué)的仿制品。當(dāng)然，機(jī)器人系統(tǒng)的生物學(xué)模型是該雜志的主要興趣，因?yàn)樯锵到y(tǒng)是自主行為的原型。

Autonomous Robots reports on the theory and applications of robotic systems capable of some degree of self-sufficiency. It features papers that include performance data on actual robots in the real world. Coverage includes: control of autonomous robots · real-time vision · autonomous wheeled and tracked vehicles · legged vehicles · computational architectures for autonomous systems · distributed architectures for learning, control and adaptation · studies of autonomous robot systems · sensor fusion · theory of autonomous systems · terrain mapping and recognition · self-calibration and self-repair for robots · self-reproducing intelligent structures · genetic algorithms as models for robot development.The focus is on the ability to move and be self-sufficient, not on whether the system is an imitation of biology. Of course, biological models for robotic systems are of major interest to the journal since living systems are prototypes for autonomous behavior.