Now a neuroscience and robotics start - up called Neurala in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has
built robot brains using GPUs.
Not exact matches
Rather it is the computer - based articial
brain that is still well below the level of sophistication needed to
build a humanlike
robot.
Hans Moravec, founder of CMUs mobile
robot laboratory and someone who has written of how our
brains may one day be downloaded into a computer, traced a genealogy of
robots, originating with the creation in 1950 of Elsie, the work of British biologist W. Grey Walter, who
built it to have the IQ of a bacterium.
«Look at a gazelle — all of its software is in its
brain,» says James Kuffner, an associate professor at C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute, one of six teams of robotics researchers (along with the Florida University System's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, M.I.T., Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania) that DARPA asked to improve on the same basic LittleDog quadruped
robot platform,
built for them by Boston Dynamics.
Nobody has yet
built a crime - fighting
robot suit, but
brain - machine interfaces may soon give reality to some related fantasies.
While more sophisticated software and ultrafast computers have led to machine «
brains» that can beat a person at chess or Go,
building a
robot that can move the pieces, fetch an iced tea or notice if the chessboard has turned into Candy
To combat these monsters and defend the coastlines of the Pacific, equally giant
robots called Jaegers are
built, each controlled by two
brain - connected pilots.
That changed late last year when Google's own high - risk, high - reward technology lab — Google X — bought a string of companies that make
robot legs, arms, eyes, wheels, and
brains, with the apparent goal of
building something like an android.