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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.

Robotics and memristors

Massimiliano Versace | February 20, 2010

Patrick Cox is the author of a very interesting article on Contrarianprofits.com. In the post, Cox makes the case that the time is ripe for large-scale adoption of robotics in both civilian and military applications.The latter is old news: in previous posts, we looked at the growing opportunities, and concerns, of robotic applications in dangerous (or dangerously boring) domains. Read the rest of this entry »

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European Replicators

Anne van Rossum | January 23, 2010

Replicators in Europe

4autonomousrobots3In the 7th Framework Program of the European Community a project has started in 2008, in which modular robots are developed by many research parties in Europe (Universität Stuttgart, Universität Graz, Universität Karlsruhe, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Sheffield Hallam University, Fraunhofer Gesellshaft, Institut Mikroelektronickych Aplikaci, Ubisense, Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze and Almende B.V., see http://www.replicators.eu) that go beyond the swarm mode and are able to form robot organisms.  Read the rest of this entry »

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How to reverse-engineer the brain?

Massimiliano Versace | February 28, 2009
Reverse engineering the brain?

Reverse engineering the brain?

In a recent invited talk at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Lloyd Watts, neuroscientist turned entrepreneur (founder, chairman and CTO of Audience Inc., a Silicon Valley company that commercializes technology derived from auditory neuroscience research), presented his “strategy” on how to go about a gargantuan task: reverse-engineering the brain. With a military strategy analogy, the problem is the following: what is the best way to occupy an enemy territory? Should the invading army occupy simultaneously the target territory from all its borders, or should all troops focus on a narrow strip of land, occupy it, consolidate the territory and exploit its resources, and then move on to the next target? Lloyd Watts, the neuroscientist-entrepreneur, seems to suggest that the second strategy is the winning one.

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IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain

Massimiliano Versace | February 4, 2009

In december 2008, a video post has been published on Abovetopsecret.com  with the title “DARPA & IBM building a “global brain” “cognitive computer” for “monitoring people”. In this video, the leader of the IBM SyNAPSE project, Dharmendra Modha, talks about SyNAPSE.

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SyNAPSE in BUSINESSWEEK

Massimiliano Versace | December 2, 2008

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Making Computers Based on the Human Brain
How the biology of gray matter is having an increasing influence on computer design

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