{"id":105786,"date":"2020-04-20T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-unveil-electronics-that-mimic-the-human-brain-in-efficient-learning"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:07:02","slug":"researchers-unveil-electronics-that-mimic-the-human-brain-in-efficient-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-unveil-electronics-that-mimic-the-human-brain-in-efficient-learning","title":{"rendered":"Researchers unveil electronics that mimic the human brain in efficient learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-unveil-electronics-that-mimic-the-human-brain-in-efficient-learning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that would function\/operate like real brain synapses.<\/p>\n<p>But now a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered, while on their way to better understanding protein <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanowires\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanowires<\/a>, how to use these biological, electricity conducting filaments to make a neuromorphic memristor, or \u201cmemory transistor,\u201d device. It runs extremely efficiently on very low power, as brains do, to carry signals between neurons. Details are in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>As first author Tianda Fu, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer engineering<\/a>, explains, one of the biggest hurdles to neuromorphic computing, and one that made it seem unreachable, is that most conventional computers operate at over 1 volt, while the brain sends signals called action potentials between neurons at around 80 millivolts\u2014many times lower. Today, a decade after early experiments, memristor voltage has been achieved in the range similar to conventional computer, but getting below that seemed improbable, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that would function\/operate like real brain synapses. But now a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered, while on their way to better understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,38,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}