On Nov. 5th, we held an internal meeting of the Neumorph center at the Iizuka Campus of Kyutech to discuss neuromorphic AI materials.

On October 6, the Neumorph Center and Collaborative Research Center, National Institute of Technology, Kure College signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with an aim of enhancing education and research activities in the fields of materials and AI.

A press release of joint research by a research group consisting of Assistant Prof. Usami, Assistant Prof. Tanaka, the vice director, Prof. Tamukoh, the director, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka, Osaka University, and Twente University was published. A paper of the research result was published in Advenced Materials.

On September 20th, our research activities about neuromorphic AI hardware and home service robot were introduced in a newspaper, Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei).

The newspaper is as follows (Japanese),
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC099V40Z00C21A9000000/

Hibikino-Musashi@Home, a robot developing team jointed from Kyushu Institute of Technology and The University of Kitakyushu, supervised by the vice director Prof. Tamukoh, won 1st place in World Robot Challenge 2020, Service Robotics Category, Partner Robot Challenge (Real Space), which had been held from Sep. 9th to 12th on AICHI SKY EXPO.

On Sep. 10th, Hibikino-Musashi@Home, a robot developing team supervised by Prof. Tamukoh, vice director of the center was introduced in a newspaper, Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun.

https://www.nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/00611571

On Sep. 10th, center members (Assistant Prof. Y. Tanaka, Vice-director Prof. Tamukoh, Associate Prof. Tateno, Director Prof. H. Tanaka, Prof. Morie) gave an invited talk entitled “A brain-inspired AI hardware with functions of the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the prefrontal cortex” on JSAP symposium.

On Sep. 12th, the director Prof. H. Tanaka gave an invited talk entitled “A material intelligence from random network -In-materio physical reservoir” on the JSAP symposium.

On Sep. 13th, center members (Assistant Prof. Usami and the director Prof. H. Tanaka) gave an invited talk entitled “Physical reservoir capabilities induced by time-domain dynamics in nano-material networks” on the JSAP symposium. Additionally, the center presented 5 oral talks on the symposium.

On July 2nd, a joint research by a research group consisting the center director, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka, Osaka University, and Toyo University was introduced in a news paper, “the Science News.”

The information of the research is as follows,
https://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~neuro/2021/06/10/

Hibikino-Musashi@Home, a robot developing team supervised by Prof. Tamukoh, vice director of the center participated RoboCup, which was an international robot competition and hold from June 22nd to 28th, won the 2nd place at @Home DSPL.

Additionally, the team won the prizes of “Best Go, Get It! in DSPL,” “Best Test Performance (Go, Get It!),” and 1st place of Open Challenge where the team presented its research and robot demonstration.