Autonomous intelligent robots can operate without human intervention and automatically complete various anthropomorphic tasks in a specific environment. Autonomous intelligent robots are systems composed of perception, data processing, decision-making, and execution, allowing the robots to act and deal with problems like human beings. An essential characteristic of an autonomous intelligent robot is its autonomy and adaptability. Autonomy means performing certain behaviors or tasks entirely autonomously in a specific environment without external control or influence. Adaptability refers to recognizing and measuring surrounding objects in real-time, adjusting its calibration parameters, changing its action strategies, and handling emergencies according to the changes in the environment. Interaction is another critical feature of autonomous robots. Robots can communicate with human beings, the external environment and other robots.

Nowadays, biomechanics is one of the fast-growing interdisciplinary fields linking researchers from different areas of science and engineering. Biologists use biomechanics to understand the relationship between form and function in animals. Neuroscientists study how the brain coordinates our muscles during movement and how these neural circuits are disrupted in injury and disease. Sports scientists study athletic movements to understand the mechanics of the human body for increasing performance and avoiding injuries. Roboticists invent robots that use living organisms' functions as an inspiration to perform complex tasks in dangerous environments. As technology advances, a significant trend is an enhanced biological system with “cyborg technology”. By promoting knowledge exchange and co-design, the biological system can inspire improvements or a novel robotics system to enable knowledge enhancement.

This Special Issue aims to collate submissions focusing on autonomous intelligent robots' theoretical and technological challenges in biomechanics to understand the mechanics of biological systems or to use the functions of living organisms as inspiration for the design of new devices.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Biomimetic robotics
• Human-robot symbiosis systems
• Multi-robot systems and distributed robotics in biomechanics
• Intelligent robotic control technology in biomechanics
• Intelligent multi-robot control technology in biomechanics
• Human-robot interaction technology