Table 1.

Methodological differences between classical and interactive biorobotics.

	Classical biorobotics	Interactive biorobotics
(A) What is the role of the robot?	The robot is used as a surrogate to reason about the target system	The robot is used to stimulate the target system
(B) Does the robot replace the target living system?	Yes	No
(C) Is the target living system part of the experimental scenario?	No	Yes
(D) Is the robot the target of experimental analysis?	Yes	No