The main aim of the journal is to serve as an efficient exchange platform for scientists of different disciplinary origins and backgrounds (engineers, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, mathematicians, psychologists, sociologists, etc.) who are inspired by the analogy between robotic autonomy and human behavior. The journal focuses, in particular, on approaches to robotics that draw on analogies between autonomous robotics and embodied cognition, cognitive development, and the emergence of cognition and communication from social behavior. We believe that only free exchange of ideas coming from various fields can efficiently foster development of an inherently interdisciplinary domain like robotics. The journal accepts both theoretical and experimental papers on topics broadly related to neurally and psychologically inspired robots and other behaving autonomous systems. It includes cognitive robotics, developmental robotics, evolutionary robotics, artificial embodied agents, self-organizing robot swarms, robot learning and adaptation, human-robot interaction, and neurally-inspired robot vision (see the scope listed below for more). The papers accepted for publication in Paladyn are expected to contain original research results that report significant advances in their respective areas. Studies at the boundaries of different fields or combining multiple perspectives are particularly encouraged.