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<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">"As robots get more complex and
capable, those demands are only going to increase. Today’s most powerful
AI systems run in massive data centers across far more chips than can
realistically fit inside a machine on the move. And the slow death of <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/08/23/moores-law-lives-intel-says-chips-will-pack-50-times-more-transistors/">Moore’s Law</a> suggests we can’t rely on conventional processors getting significantly more efficient or compact anytime soon.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">That prompted a team from the
University of Southern California to resurrect an idea from more than 40
years ago: mimicking the human brain’s division of labor between two
complimentary structure</span><span lang="en-GB">s</span><span lang="en-GB">.
While the cerebrum is responsible for higher cognitive functions like
vision, hearing, and thinking, the cerebellum integrates sensory data
and governs movement, balance, and posture.</span></p><p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></p><p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">When the idea was first proposed the technology didn’t exist to make it a reality, but in a paper </span><span lang="en-GB">recently</span><span lang="en-GB"> published in </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Science Robotics</em>,</span><span lang="en-GB">
the researchers describe a hybrid system that combines analog circuits
that control motion and digital circuits that govern perception and
decision-making in an inverted pendulum robot.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB">“<span lang="en-US">Through this cooperation of the cerebrum and</span> <span lang="en-US">the cerebellum, the robot can conduct multiple tasks simultaneously</span> <span lang="en-US">with a much shorter latency and lower power consumption</span><span lang="en-GB">,” write the researchers." </span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/26/how-giving-robots-a-hybrid-human-like-brain-can-make-them-smarter/">https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/26/how-giving-robots-a-hybrid-human-like-brain-can-make-them-smarter/</a></span></p>
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