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Talking Robots: Henry Markram
     


The last but one Talking
Robots episode interviews Henry Markram, who is
directing the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the
mammalian brain in the Blue Brain Project. Using IBM's
Blue Gene supercomputer Markram's team has reverse engineered and
simulated a neocortical column composed of 10'000 neurons with more than
30 million synapses. Future robots may use the Blue Brain to build
internal models or to allow us to understand and track spatial learning.
Markram believes that robots as they are built today will always have
fundamental limitations, because they are not able to capture many of
the neural processes that the brain uses. In his view complex neural
processes are essential in allowing brains to be flexible. For more
information on the last but one Talking Robots interview listen in. To conclude the
Talking Robots series, you are also warmly invited to share your
concerns, hopes and visions for the future of robotics. To make yourself
heard in the final Talking Robots episode, send us your text or audio
message before May 22nd at talkingrobots@gmail.com.

   

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