Ethics of biohybrid robotics and invertebrate research: biohybrid robotic jellyfish as a case study.

IF 3.1 3区计算机科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI:10.1088/1748-3190/adc0d4

Nicole W Xu, Olga Lenczewska, Sarah E Wieten, Carole A Federico, John O Dabiri

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Abstract

Invertebrate research ethics has largely been ignored compared to the consideration of higher order animals, but more recent focus has questioned this trend. Using the robotic control ofAurelia auritaas a case study, we examine ethical considerations in invertebrate work and provide recommendations for future guidelines. We also analyze these issues for prior bioethics cases, such as cyborg insects and the 'microslavery' of microbes. However, biohybrid robotic jellyfish pose further ethical questions regarding potential ecological consequences as ocean monitoring tools, including the impact of electronic waste in the ocean. After in-depth evaluations, we recommend that publishers require brief ethical statements for invertebrate research, and we delineate the need for invertebrate nociception studies to revise or validate current standards. These actions provide a stronger basis for the ethical study of invertebrates, with implications for individual, species-wide, and ecological impacts, as well as for studies in science, engineering, and philosophy.

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生物混合机器人和无脊椎动物研究的伦理：生物混合机器人水母作为一个案例研究。

与考虑高等动物相比，无脊椎动物研究伦理在很大程度上被忽视了，但最近的焦点对这一趋势提出了质疑。以Aurelia aurita的机器人控制为例，我们研究了无脊椎动物工作中的伦理问题，并为未来的指导方针提供了建议。我们还分析了之前的生物伦理学案例中的这些问题，例如半机械人昆虫和微生物的“微奴役”。然而，作为海洋监测工具，生物混合机器人水母提出了进一步的伦理问题，涉及潜在的生态后果，包括海洋中电子废物的影响。经过深入的评估，我们建议出版商对无脊椎动物研究要求简短的伦理声明，我们描述了无脊椎动物伤害感受研究修订或验证当前标准的必要性。这些行动为无脊椎动物的伦理研究提供了更坚实的基础，对个体、物种和生态的影响，以及科学、工程和哲学的研究都有影响。

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Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 工程技术-材料科学：生物材料

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

14.70%

发文量

132

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： Bioinspiration & Biomimetics publishes research involving the study and distillation of principles and functions found in biological systems that have been developed through evolution, and application of this knowledge to produce novel and exciting basic technologies and new approaches to solving scientific problems. It provides a forum for interdisciplinary research which acts as a pipeline, facilitating the two-way flow of ideas and understanding between the extensive bodies of knowledge of the different disciplines. It has two principal aims: to draw on biology to enrich engineering and to draw from engineering to enrich biology. The journal aims to include input from across all intersecting areas of both fields. In biology, this would include work in all fields from physiology to ecology, with either zoological or botanical focus. In engineering, this would include both design and practical application of biomimetic or bioinspired devices and systems. Typical areas of interest include: Systems, designs and structure Communication and navigation Cooperative behaviour Self-organizing biological systems Self-healing and self-assembly Aerial locomotion and aerospace applications of biomimetics Biomorphic surface and subsurface systems Marine dynamics: swimming and underwater dynamics Applications of novel materials Biomechanics; including movement, locomotion, fluidics Cellular behaviour Sensors and senses Biomimetic or bioinformed approaches to geological exploration.