Idiobionics: The Unification of Privacy and Intelligent Robotic Prostheses

个体仿生学（Idiobionics）：隐私与智能机器人假肢的统一

Abstract: The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently couple biological and digital systems. Robotic prostheses are a representative example of this tight coupling. 摘要： 人体正处于一系列新兴技术的中心，这些技术旨在将生物系统与数字系统进行紧密且持久的耦合。机器人假肢正是这种紧密耦合的典型代表。

Also referred to as bionic limbs, robotic prostheses are devices that support people who have lost limbs in pursuing daily life activities such as walking and grasping objects. Bionic limbs are now perceptive and responsive owing to their integration with advanced sensors and artificial intelligence-based control approaches. 机器人假肢（也称为仿生肢体）是为肢体缺失者提供支持的设备，帮助他们进行行走和抓取物体等日常活动。由于集成了先进的传感器和基于人工智能的控制方法，仿生肢体现在具备了感知和响应能力。

Consequently, such robotic prostheses can now be viewed as semiautonomous wearable robotic systems that can co-adapt with their users. However, the same sensing and control advancements that increase the capability of robotic prostheses also introduce threat vectors that could be exploited by malicious entities to violate the privacy of users. 因此，这类机器人假肢现在可以被视为能够与用户共同适应的半自主可穿戴机器人系统。然而，这些提升了假肢性能的传感与控制技术进步，同时也引入了威胁向量，可能被恶意实体利用以侵犯用户的隐私。

To fully realize the benefits of next-generation bionic limbs, we maintain it is important to directly understand and address these privacy risks and the barriers they might present to user adoption. This paper therefore introduces a new line of inquiry we term idiobionics to holistically investigate issues at the intersection of privacy and intelligent bionic limbs. 为了充分发挥下一代仿生肢体的优势，我们认为直接理解并解决这些隐私风险及其可能对用户采纳造成的障碍至关重要。因此，本文引入了一个我们称之为“个体仿生学”（idiobionics）的新研究方向，旨在全面探讨隐私与智能仿生肢体交叉领域的问题。

As the main contribution of this paper, we define idiobionics, ground it in related literature, and provide preliminary evidence showing and discussing potential adversarial attacks that could exploit intelligent bionic limb designs. We then contribute a curated list of open research questions within idiobionics that are relevant to researchers in wearable robotics and other human-facing autonomous systems. 作为本文的主要贡献，我们定义了“个体仿生学”，将其建立在相关文献的基础上，并提供了初步证据，展示并讨论了可能利用智能仿生肢体设计的潜在对抗性攻击。随后，我们整理了一份个体仿生学领域内的开放研究问题清单，这些问题对于可穿戴机器人及其他面向人类的自主系统研究人员具有参考价值。

We expect that idiobionics research will help unlock the full potential of robotic prostheses and related bionic devices. 我们期望个体仿生学的研究将有助于释放机器人假肢及相关仿生设备的全部潜力。