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Remember back in December   BRN as i have said are 3 months in front to where we think they are .

BrainChip Europe (ex SpikeNet Technology SAS) Bioinspired image processing
Cochlear France SAS Auditory implant technology
Airbus Industries Aerospatial construction
Medexprim Medical Software
I realise that it's SPIKE TIME DEPENDENT PLASICITY just the value of the chip is what caught my eye

They have an algorithm using a modified learning rule based on Spike-Time Dependent Plasticity that they have implemented on a chip called an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) that costs just $100 but will learn arbitrary sensory patterns in just a few repetitions – just like humans.
The technique has already been applied to visual and auditory stimuli which can be converted into spatiotemporal patterns of spikes using something similar to the human retina or cochlear.

But the possibilities are endless. For example, we are now looking into the possibility of collaborating with researchers at the LAAS to use similar ideas in robotics. The industrial applications could be enormous, and major companies including Intel and Samsung are clearly interested.

At the beginning of September 2016, SpikeNet Technology, the company that Thorpe created in 1999 with Arnaud Delorme and Rufin VanRullen was acquired by Californian high tech start-up BrainChip Inc with the aim of producing hardware designs based on SpikeNet's bio-inspired learning algorithms.

Very recently, BrainChip is in the process of signing a licensing deal with Toulouse Tech Transfer to obtain the exclusive right to commercialize products based on the new algorithms developed at the Cerco by Thorpe and his team. Given the enormous commercial potential of this sort of technology, the revenue sharing scheme could have a very major impact not only on the CerCo, but potentially also across the TMBI.

While this is only a very brief illustration, it demonstrates how an interdisciplinary approach that brings together researchers working both on biological and artificial systems can be so rewarding. For more illustrations of the sorts of innovative projects that TMBI hopes to foster, please refer to the “Projects” section of the TMBI website which will be updated in the coming weeks and months with yet more ideas.


Perception, Attention & Action Projects

http://tmbi.fr/perception-attention-action-projects/

The CerCo and CIC have strong ties to industrial partners like SpikeNET and Cochlear, that develop brain-inspired image processing systems and sensory aids. But TMBI will encourage even stronger links with AI & Computer Science