As interesting as it is to study the academic research into neuromorphic engineering, it is equally interesting to look at how the private industrial landscape is being transformed by these developments. Neurally inspired technologies are quickly changing how business is being done and are of increasing importance as more data is collected with few tools available to intelligently process the data.
This recent CNN article by Keller Rinaudo, CEO and co-founder of Romotive, sheds light on why we think (and hope...) robots will take off in the very near future.
As for many other things in life, money is one of the reasons...
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The iRobot Roomba cleaning robots is still the most famous, and probably widespread robot in the world. Despite this has made many people happy not to clean their floors (e.g., me), Roomba is not exactly the robot many of us would have expected to keep the best selling position in the robotic industry for so many years. Who is next? Read the rest of this entry »
Robots are everywhere. So they say... yesterday morning I was chatting with a colleague of mine, who remarked how if you type "robots" in the search box on Youtube, you get a sea of results (to be precise, 361,000) showing robots coming in all different sauces and incarnation, from cleaning, to flying, to climbing, to swimming. But here is a question each Neurdon is surely asking: other than on Yourube, where are they??!! Read the rest of this entry »
The nth+1 book on how the brain works has appeared, this time at the hand of Ray Kurzweil. How many books have been written to date that claim to finally have cracked the brain, and promise that, for a mere $18.36, you can read it all? One too many... This FREE Neurdon article will save your next $20. Read the rest of this entry »
Adapteva, a company that was on Neurdon's radar for a while, is launching their new Parallella project. The end goal is to make parallel computing, including the sort of massively parallel computing neural modelers need, both easy and cheap. And we like both... Read the rest of this entry »
A guest post on the IEEE Spectrum Automation blog by author William Hertling discusses how the open source culture can revolutionize the future of robotics and AI. In both academic and industrial community, the idea of a slow, incremental progress in challenging fields such as machine perception and robotics is the standard way of thinking. May be we should think again, suggests Hertling Read the rest of this entry »
A very interesting article just came out on on Mercury News with an interview to"HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee mentioning the latest HP Lab strategies and Cog Ex Machina, the software platform developed by HP Labs in collaboration with the Boston University Neuromorphics Lab. Full disclosure... I direct that lab! So yes, I may be biased... but read on. This gives some hints of what applications can come out of this platform. And we hope this is just the beginning!
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One of the main goals of Neurdon, since its very beginnings, was to educate readers to tell apart fiction from reality. Nowadays, big companies are diving (or dive-bombing) in the field of neural computing with hyperbolic claims of being able to simulate biological brains, from feline to humans. One of such a claim comes, again, from IBM. This is the truth behind what IBM calls "cognitive computer". Read the rest of this entry »
In a previous post, we described applications of graphic processing units (GPUs) to neuromorphic computing. GPUs are a good fit for simulating neurons, and recent industry trends will most likely increase the appeal of this computing substrate. However, GPUs may not be the only player in attracting the attention of neural modelers. A Lexington (MA) startup company, Adapteva, has recently introduced a chip that looks even more appealing than GPUs. Read the rest of this entry »
AMD is gambling its future on its Fusion, AMD series of Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), whose adoption (or lack of) in mainstream computing will most likely determine the fate of the company. GPGPU computing will play a central role in this. Wait... what do neurons have to do with this? Read the rest of this entry »