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Brains and Machines
Curious to explore the technology advancing Artificial Intelligence beyond the usual headlines? Brains and Machines will introduce you to the people and ideas behind neuromorphic engineering, bio-inspired robotics, and other transformative technologies shaping AI’s future. From spiking neural networks and event-cameras to models of attention and mechanisms for prosthetic control, we investigate how machine cognition is moving forward.
Join Dr Sunny Bains, a scientist, journalist, and lecturer…
Episodes
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Why Computing with Time Gives Neuromorphic AI an Edge
In this month’s Brains and Machines, Dr. Ryad Benosman discusses event-based vision, retinal prosthetics, and neuromorphic startups. A co-founder of Prophesee…
Brains and MachinesDo Spikes Need Common Language for Sensing and Learning?
On this month’s episode of Brains and Machines, five engineers debate neuromorphic sensing and learning. Recorded at the Neuromorphic Hardware and Algorithms…
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Can Great Sky’s Light-Connected AI Enable Bigger Brains?
In this month’s Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Jeff Shainline talks about superconducting neural hardware. Currently in development at Great Sky in Boulder…
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Will Photonics Loosen the Bottlenecks in Neural Systems?
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Patty Stabile of the Eindhoven University of Technology chats with us about her optical neural networks with…
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Fixing AI’s Bottlenecks: Memory, Scale, and Sparsity
This latest episode of Brains and Machines features a panel discussion on neuromorphic engineering and physical computing held at the Atoms to Bits: The…
Brains and MachinesCan the Nvidia Monopoly on AI Chips Be Broken?
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times Senior Reporter Sally Ward-Foxton talks to Dr. Sunny Bains of the University College London. They…
Brains and MachinesNeuromorphic Spikes Unify Control and Decision Making
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre, a control theorist from the University of Cambridge, talks to Dr. Sunny Bains of…
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Green Always-On Sensing With Neuronova’s Sub-μwatt Chip?
Neuronova is an analog neuromorphic startup based in Milan, Italy. In this episode of Brains and Machines, the CEO and CTO talk to Dr. Sunny Bains of…
Brains and MachinesAn Architecture for Building Brains from Top to Bottom?
Professor Chris Eliasmith is a computer scientist and philosopher who’s been modelling cognitive systems for almost three decades. In this episode of Brains…
Brains and MachinesArtificial Hearing: From Ear Drums to Tuning Forks
Dr. Claudia Lenk’s group creates brain-inspired hearing systems with micromechanical hair cells. In this episode of Brains and Machines, she talks to Dr. Sunny…
Brains and MachinesA Theoretical Framework for Neuromorphic Technology?
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…
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Neurons Close the Loop from Insect Perception to Action
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…
Brains and MachinesCan Neuromorphic Be Low-Power, Reconfigurable, and Scalable?
Professor Gert Cauwenberghs has been working toward building brain-scale systems for decades. At the University of California San Diego, he’s now one of the…
Brains and MachinesEvent-Driven E-Skins Protect Both Robots and Humans
Professor Gordon Cheng builds humanoid robots that can feel their environment using artificial skin. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he talks to Dr…
Brains and MachinesDigital Prototypes May Enable Analog Neuromorphic Chips
Dr. Charlotte Frenkel from the Technical University of Delft set records with a low-power neuromorphic chip she designed as part of her Ph.D. In this episode…
Brains and MachinesIBM Used Mathematics as Compass on Journey to NorthPole
Dharmendra Modha’s TrueNorth chip added the word neuromorphic to the technorati lexicon back in 2014. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he talks to Dr…
Brains and MachinesRippling Signals May Provide Working Memory in the Brain
For 50 years Dr. Terry Sejnowski has modelled the brain and used his insights to help inform AI. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he talks to Dr. Sunny…
Brains and MachinesMaking Analog Chip Designs Without Analog Designers
Dr. Jennifer Hasler of Georgia Tech is best known for her work with field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs). In this episode of Brains and Machines, she talks…
Brains and MachinesBrainChip’s IP for Targeting AI Applications at the Edge
Tony Lewis, CTO for BrainChip, and four other key scientists talk to Sunny Bains of the University College London. They discuss their business strategy, their…
Brains and MachinesRobots Need Physical, Not Just Artificial, Intelligence
In this episode of Brains and Machines, emeritus Professor Rodney Brooks of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently CTO of Robust AI, talks about…
Brains and MachinesEmbracing the Efficiency of the Neuromorphic Hairball
In this new episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Katie Schuman of the University of Tennessee explains the advantages of evolutionary approaches in neural…
Brains and MachinesChip Combines Analog and Digital Neurons for Sensor Data
In this episode of Brains and Machines, UCL’s Sunny Bains talks to four key figures at Innatera, a spin out from the University of Delft in the Netherlands: Dr…
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Carver Mead Says Neuromorphic Efficiency Can Help AI
In this episode of Brains and Machines, UCL’s Sunny Bains talks parallelism, neural net efficiency and risk taking with Caltech’s Prof. Carver Mead. Now an…
Brains and MachinesNext-Gen Neuromorphic Researchers Look to Future
In this special episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Sunny Bains and Dr. Giulia D’Angelo talk to four early career researchers: Dr. Kenneth Stewart…
Brains and MachinesSynSense Research Head Talks Combined Sensing, Processing
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Dylan Muir, the head of research at SynSense. They discuss the company’s products…
Brains and MachinesHalf-Human–Scale SpiNNaker 2 Machine on Cloud in 2024
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks with Professor Christian Mayr from the Technical University of Dresden, who worked on SpiNNaker…
Brains and MachinesBio-Inspired Networks to Interface With Nervous System
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr. Sunny Bains about neuromorphic circuits…
Brains and MachinesChoosing the Right Technologies for Hybrid AI Chips
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains discusses neuromorphic chips with Dr. Amirreza Yousefzadeh, who most recently worked at imec and the…
Brains and MachinesWhy Sound Processing Takes Time, Not Just Frequency
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Shih-Chii Liu, co-director of the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)—part of both the…
Brains and MachinesAlgorithms Help Spiking Neural Networks Learn to Learn
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Emre Neftci, director of the Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems group at the Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI)…
Brains and MachinesGiving the Humanoid iCub Embodied, Neuromorphic Vision
Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi, head of the event-driven perception for the robotics group at the Italian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Genoa, develops analog…
Brains and MachinesTobi Delbrück Talks Caltech, Cameras, and Neural Control
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Tobi Delbrück, one of the original neuromorphic engineers from Carver Mead’s team…
Brains and MachinesFerroelectric Memristors and Exotic Materials to Drive AI
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda, director of the Groningen Cognitive…
Brains and MachinesPerceiving Touch With Event-Based Neuromorphic Computing
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology interviews her IIT colleague, Dr. Simeon…
Brains and MachinesHow Memristors Will Help Machines Think at Different Timescales
In the latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Professor Melika Payvand, who designs neural systems from the…
Brains and MachinesARM Inventor Steve Furber on SpiNNaker 1, 2 and Beyond
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains interviews now-Emeritus Professor Steve Furber as he prepares to leave the University of…
Brains and MachinesHow to See ‘Where’ Through Low-Power Event Cameras
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo, from the Czech Technical University in Prague, talks to Professor Guillermo Gallego…
Brains and MachinesSeeing Robotics and Machine Vision as Dynamical Systems
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at…
Brains and MachinesBuilding Brain-Like Systems from Sub-Threshold Electronics
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics in…
Brains and MachinesUnderstanding Real Brains with Robotic Rats, and Vice Versa
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann, Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at…
Brains and MachinesOn-Chip Learning is Missing Neuromorphic Building Block
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains interviews Elisabetta Chicca, head of the bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group at the…
Brains and MachinesAndré van Schaik Discusses New Neuromorphic Simulator
In this first episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains interviews André van Schaik from the Western Sydney University about how neuromorphic…