动物机器人及其潜在军事应用价值

动物机器人由于具有出色的隐蔽性和环境适应性，可能在未来战争或局部冲突中会扮演重要角色，成为决定战场胜负的杀手锏。针对动物机器人及其潜在的军事应用价值，本文介绍了动物机器人的原理，根据动物生存环境的差异综述了陆地动物机器人、飞行动物机器人和水下动物机器人等三种类型机器人的研究现状；在此基础上，分析了动物机器人在抵近侦察、目标引导、对象识别和直接打击等方面的潜在军事应用价值，并讨论了动物机器人走向实用过程中存在的刺激靶点、刺激方式、生物相容性、操控器件、无线通讯以及能源供给等方面存在的工程问题以及未来研究方向。动物机器人优势十分明显，但对技术的要求也非常高，目前仅仅处于起步阶段，未来的路还任重道远。

Animal robots and their potential military application value

Because of the excellent concealment and environmental adaptability, animal robots play an important role in future wars or local conflicts. They may become the trump card to determine the outcome of battlefield. Aiming at the animal robots and their potential military application value, in this paper, the principles of animal robots are introduced at first, and then the research status of land animal robots, flying animal robots and underwater animal robots according to the differences of animal living environment is summarized. On this basis, the potential military application value of animal robots in approach reconnaissance, target guidance, target recognition, direct attack, and so on, is analyzed. The engineering problems in stimulation target, stimulation mode, biocompatibility, control device, wireless communication and energy supply, as well as future research directions are discussed. The advantages of animal robots are very obvious, but the technical requirements are also very high. At present, they are only in the initial stage, and there is still a long way to go in the future.