Neurotech

Neuromorphic Computing Technology (NCT) is a brain-inspired sensing and processing hardware for more efficient and adaptive computing.

NEUROTECH project aims to create and lead NCT community in Europe.

NCT community builds hardware inspired by biological neural systems using digital and analogue CMOS technologies, memristive devices, photonics, spintronics, and other nano-technological solutions. This technology, we believe, will revolutionise the field of computing and, in particular, artificially intelligent systems, since it provides orders of magnitude more power efficient real-time computing platforms for embedded cognitive processing. Our mission is to catalyse research and collaboration in NCT. Today's neuromorphic community in Europe is leading the state of the art in this domain. The community counts an increasing number of labs that work on theory, modelling, and implementation of neuromorphic computing systems.

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We aim to enable the uptake of this technology and to match the needs of real-world applications in future products that solve real-world tasks. The envisioned applications are in smart industry, health-care, intelligent assistive systems, cognitive robotics, and consumer devices. We aim to create a sustainable communication channel between research labs, industry, general public, and other stakeholders.

Academic Labs and Industry

NEUROTECH project assembles and curates a coherent collection of educational resources on all aspects of NCT, to promote core educational events on NCT, and to disseminate NCT curriculum to other communities.

Educational resources

Designing and building hardware that is optimized to perform computing tasks that aim to mimic cognitive functions of the brain. This hardware is designed by taking inspiration from the brain both at the architecture and at the components functionalities level. It includes features such as: colocation of memory and computing, high connectivity between elements, the use of stochasticity, massive parallelism, the use of devices and materials which physics directly implement the behavior of brain cells (the non-linearity of neurons and their spiking behavior, the non-volatility and plasticity of synapses).

– Paolo Bortolotti