Category: Episodes

Sunny gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda, Director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center. They discuss how this unusual interdisciplinary research center works, why nanoscale ferroelectrics may be useful in brain-like systems, and a little about how they are designed and fabricated. Discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …

Giulia talks to Simeon Bamford, a researcher who works on tactile neuromorphic sensors at the Italian Institute of Technology. They talk about creating circuits to perform functions lost to brain damage, Bamford’s involvement with the commercialisation of Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), and his latest research on robotic touch. Discussion follows with Sunny and Ralph. Read More …

Sunny talks to Professor Melika Payvand who designs neural systems from the circuit-level up at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. They discuss the role that memristors play in the systems she designs, why neural circuits need to operate at different timescales, and how copying some features of biological dendrites could add computational power to silicon brains. Read More …

Sunny talks to now Emeritus Professor Steve Furber as he prepares to leave the University of Manchester. They talk about associative memories, the original SpiNNaker neural simulator designed using densely-interconnected ARM cores, and the new generation of the technology currently being assembled. Read More …

Giulia talks to Dr Guillermo Gallego: Professor of Robotic Interactive Perception at the Technical University of Berlin, the Einstein Center Digital Future and the Science of Intelligence Excellence Cluster, Germany. They discuss the new generation of bioinspired event-driven cameras, the vision algorithms behind them and why they can be appealing from an application point of view. Read More …

Sunny talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. They discuss the role that dynamical systems theory plays in robotics, her work at with Intel’s Loihi platform, and what she plans to do in her new position at ZHAW, particularly related to vision. Read More …

Sunny talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, a stalwart neuromorphic engineer based at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, Switzerland. You’ll learn how he sees the trade-offs between analog and digital in the marketplace, the chips he has in the lab and on the drawing board, and — as a purist — the evolution of the term neuromorphic. Read More …