自主機器人報告的理論和應用的機器人系統能夠在一定程度上自給自足。它的特色論文包括現實世界中實際機器人的性能數據。覆蓋范圍包括：自主機器人控制、實時視覺、自主輪式和履帶式車輛、腿式車輛、自主系統計算架構、學習、控制和自適應分布式架構、自主機器人系統研究、傳感器融合、自主系統理論、地形測繪與識別·機器人的自校正與自修復·智能結構的自再現·作為機器人開發模型的遺傳算法。重點是運動和自給自足的能力，而不是系統是否是生物學的仿制品。當然，機器人系統的生物學模型是該雜志的主要興趣，因為生物系統是自主行為的原型。

Autonomous Robots reports on the theory and applications of robotic systems capable of some degree of self-sufficiency. It features papers that include performance data on actual robots in the real world. Coverage includes: control of autonomous robots · real-time vision · autonomous wheeled and tracked vehicles · legged vehicles · computational architectures for autonomous systems · distributed architectures for learning, control and adaptation · studies of autonomous robot systems · sensor fusion · theory of autonomous systems · terrain mapping and recognition · self-calibration and self-repair for robots · self-reproducing intelligent structures · genetic algorithms as models for robot development.The focus is on the ability to move and be self-sufficient, not on whether the system is an imitation of biology. Of course, biological models for robotic systems are of major interest to the journal since living systems are prototypes for autonomous behavior.