Frontiers in Neurorobotics is a first-tier electronic journal publishing leading edge research in the science and technology of embodied autonomous neural systems. Neural systems include brain-inspired algorithms (e.g., connectionist networks), computational models of biological neural networks (e.g., artificial spiking neural nets, large-scale simulations of neural microcircuits) and actual biological systems (e.g., in vivo and in vitro neural nets). The focus of the journal is the embodiment of such neural systems in artificial software and hardware devices, machines, robots or any other form of physical actuation. This also includes prosthetic devices, brain machine interfaces, wearable systems, micro-machines, furniture, home appliances as well as systems for managing micro and macro infrastructures.

Frontiers in Neuroscience is a second-tier journal that highlights the most outstanding articles published in the first-tier specialty journals (e.g., Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, etc.) judged over a period of a few months. These articles are re-written in a review-like style centered on the core discovery, but in a broader neuroscience context.