A podcast about neuromorphic engineering and biologically-inspired technology
Sunny talks to Jeff Shainline about superconducting neural hardware currently in development at Great Sky in Boulder, Colorado. The new systems will incorporate photonic interconnects and a neuromorphic approach to intelligence. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Dr Patty Stabile of Eindhoven University of Technology about her optical neural networks with ultra-low-latency processing, and the semiconductor optical amplifiers that make them possible. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
This episode features a panel discussion on neuromorphic engineering and physical computing held at the Atoms to Bits: The AlphaBet of Intelligence v2.0 conference at the University of Manchester, February 2026. The panellists are Dr Damien Querlioz, Dr Julian Büchel, Prof Tamalika Banerjee, Dr Maxence Ernoult, and Prof Steve Furber, and Sunny chairs the discussion. Discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Sally Ward-Foxton, who covers AI chips for EETimes. They talk about the importance of power in all AI systems, the benefit of having dedicated inference chips and where neuromorphic fits into the market. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Prof Rodolphe Sepulchre, a control theorist from the University of Cambridge. They discuss the inspiration he took from studying biological neurons, why both discrete and continuous behaviors are inherent to how they work, and why building neurons is often easier than simulating them. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny guests are the CEO and CTO of Neuronova: an analog neuromorphic startup based in Milan, Italy. They talk about the company’s technology and strategy, and particularly how very low power can make a very big difference to the sustainability of many applications: particularly audio. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph.
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Sunny talks to Chris Eliasmith, a computer scientist and philosopher who’s been modelling cognitive systems for almost three decades. They discuss his neural engineering framework and the tools he and his team have developed to implement it, including SPAUN, the semantic pointer architecture universal network, and Nengo, their software interface. Read More …
Sunny talks to Dr Claudia Lenk, whose group creates brain-inspired hearing systems with micromechanical hair cells. They discuss the advantages of the approach and how it can be applied to speech processing in AI. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Dr Brad Aimone from Sandia National Laboratories who works with the world’s biggest neuromorphic platforms. He explains how this allows him to think deeply about what such platforms are good for and how we might be able to get to a theory of neuromorphic computational power. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Prof Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who uses physical robots to validate neural mechanisms in crickets, ants, and bees. She talks about her work inspired by the philosophy that biological cognition can only be truly understood by building complete sensory-motor loops that work in the real world. After the interview, discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …