Max Versace of Neurala Talks About The Future of Robots

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In a recent TEDx Talk, Max Versace, CEO of Neurala, talked about what is holding back robot development and what is actually happening to make the of robots of the future a reality.

If an alien watched all the videos on YouTube, he would think that the world was full of robots. But, it's not. Why not? What will it take to get robots out of YouTube and into the real world?

In the TEDx Talk above, Max Versace, CEO of Neurala, explains what is holding back robots and what is being done to make a world of robots a reality.

"If people ask you what you are going to do with thousands of processors on a cell phone in the future, your answer from now on is going to be, 'I can run a brain'."

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Versace discusses how the progress of Moore's Law and other exponential technologies are beginning to have very tangible effects in the worlds of robotics and artificial intelligence.  "If people ask you what you are going to do with thousands of processors on a cell phone in the future, your answer from now on is going to be, 'I can run a brain'," he says.

Versace calls processors that are coming online "fancy processors," and hints that these neuromorphic processors, or NPU like those in development at the Human Brain Project (and possibly the US BRAIN Initiative), are going to allow for robots that are actually able to think like animals, and eventually people.

"Things are advancing quickly," states Versace. "I believe that we are living in a time of great convergence between the brain, mind and body actually allowing us today to build robots that can actually escape YouTube."


SOURCE  Neurala

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