At first glance, the idea sounds implausible: a computer made not of silicon, but of living brain cells. It’s the kind of ...

In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning ...

A revolutionary new kind of computer is no longer science fiction — it’s alive. Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has ...

Research conducted by the Computational Neuroscience Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has shown for the first time that a computer model can replicate ...

Research shows that energy constraints on a system, coupled with an intrinsic property of systems, push silicon neurons to create a dynamic, at-a-distance communication that is more robust and ...

In 2017, Demis Hassabis and his colleagues at Google’s Deepmind highlighted the commonalities between artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience in a paper and noted that better understanding of ...

There’s a great deal of innovation embedded in today’s cutting-edge computer chips, but not much of it is as out-of-the-box as the thinking that’s driving Australian startup Cortical Labs. The company ...

The human brain is by far the most effective processing unit out there when given the right education and know-how to fix multiple layers of problems; we still are leaps and bounds superior to the ...

An integrated spiking artificial neuron, with rich neuron functionality, single-transistor footprints, and low energy consumption for neuromorphic computing systems, can be created by stacking one ...

High-resolution imaging and 3D computer modeling show that the dendrites of neurons weave through space in a way that balances their need to connect to other neurons with the costs of doing so. The ...