The brain, with the primary motor cortex coloured orange and the primary sensory cortex in turquoise SOVEREIGN/ISM/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A brain-inspired computer can now simulate part of the sensory cortex in real time, using tens of thousands of virtual neurons. It is the first time such a complex simulation has run this fast and could be an important step towards building better brains for robots.
The SpiNNaker supercomputer at the University of Manchester, UK, features 57,000 specialised chips with a total of 1 million processing units, known as cores. It is designed to run programs that simulate how…
