{"id":40114,"date":"2014-11-07T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-neurodrones-neuromorphic-chip-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:24:48","slug":"smarterplanet-neurodrones-neuromorphic-chip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-neurodrones-neuromorphic-chip-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-40114 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-neurodrones-neuromorphic-chip-2\/attachment\/40116\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_neka4yD7iR1r08k60o1_1280-1-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smarterplanet.tumblr.com\/post\/101854065172\/neurodrones-neuromorphic-chip-tested-in-prototype\">smarterplanet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Neurodrones: Neuromorphic Chip tested in prototype nanodrone<\/p>\n<p>MIT Technology Review reports, that researchers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrl.com\/laboratories\/cnes\/cnes_main.html\">HRL Laboratories\u2019 Center for Neural and Emergent Systems<\/a> (on behalf of DARPA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/Our_Work\/DSO\/Programs\/Systems_of_Neuromorphic_Adaptive_Plastic_Scalable_Electronics_%28SYNAPSE%29.aspx\">SyNAPSE program<\/a>) have tested a tiny drone (93 grams incl battery) with a prototype neuromorphic chip (576 silicon neurons).<\/p>\n<p>The first time the drone was flown into each room, the unique pattern of incoming sensor data from the walls, furniture, and other objects caused a pattern of electrical activity in the neurons that the chip had never experienced before. That triggered it to report that it was in a new space, and also caused the ways its neurons connected to one another to change, in a crude mimic of learning in a real brain. Those changes meant that next time the craft entered the same room, it recognized it and signaled as such.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avinc.com\/\">Aerovironment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/532176\/a-brain-inspired-chip-takes-to-the-sky\/\">[read more]<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thenounproject.com\/\">[Drone designed by Patrick McDonnell, Brain designed by Maximilian Becker from the Noun Project, CC 3.0]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smarterplanet: Neurodrones: Neuromorphic Chip tested in prototype nanodrone MIT Technology Review reports, that researchers from HRL Laboratories\u2019 Center for Neural and Emergent Systems (on behalf of DARPA\u2019s SyNAPSE program) have tested a tiny drone (93 grams incl battery) with a prototype neuromorphic chip (576 silicon neurons). The first time the drone was flown into each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-40114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-ar0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40118,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40114\/revisions\/40118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}