The primary goal of bionics is “to extend man’s physical and intellec-tual capabilities by prosthetic devices in the most general sense” (Von Gierke et al. 1970; Dario et al. 1993)
Hybrid Bionic Systems (HBSs) can be defined generically as systems that contain both technical (artificial) and biological components, or biological systems with artificial elements or subsystems
The basic assumption for designing new HBSs is to bring together neuroscience knowledge on sensory-motor control with robotic and interfacing technologies, while keeping the human person at the centre of the design approach
This is the ultimate goal of the NEUROBOTICS project: the fusion of NEUROscience and roBOTICS), an “Integrated Project” funded by the European Commission (IST-FET-contract no. 001917-2003) and aimed at encouraging neuroscientists and roboticists to work together for jointly developing new, high performance HBSs

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