{"id":118748,"date":"2021-01-21T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/designing-customized-brains-for-robots"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:22:18","slug":"designing-customized-brains-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/designing-customized-brains-for-robots","title":{"rendered":"Designing customized \u2018brains\u2019 for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designing-customized-brains-for-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary robots can move quickly. \u201cThe motors are fast, and they\u2019re powerful,\u201d says Sabrina Neuman.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don\u2019t move quickly. \u201cThe hang up is what\u2019s going on in the robot\u2019s head,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a \u201cboatload of computation,\u201d which limits <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/reaction+time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reaction time<\/a>, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Neuman has found a way to fight this mismatch between a robot\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d and body. The method, called robomorphic computing, uses a robot\u2019s physical layout and intended applications to generate a customized computer <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a> that minimizes the robot\u2019s response time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary robots can move quickly. \u201cThe motors are fast, and they\u2019re powerful,\u201d says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don\u2019t move quickly. \u201cThe hang up is what\u2019s going on in the robot\u2019s head,\u201d she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a \u201cboatload of computation,\u201d which limits reaction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118748","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}