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.
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.
The 5th Neumorph Seminar was held online on June 24, 2021.
Dr. Takao Marukame from Toshiba gave a lecture on “Brain-type hardware and R&D trends of neuromorphic devices.”
On June 9th, a press release of a joint research by a research group consisting the center director, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka, Osaka University, and Toyo University was published. A paper of the research result was accepted and published in Scientific Reports.
Press Release (Kyutech)
https://www.kyutech.ac.jp/whats-new/press/entry-8311.html
Press Release (Osaka University)
https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/research/2021/20210609_2
Paper published in Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89709-z
On May 26th, a paper “Spoken Digit Classification by In-Materio Reservoir Computing With Neuromorphic Atomic Switch Networks” submitted by a research group of visiting professor of this center, Distinguished Prof. Jim Zewski (UCLA) was published in the academic journal “frontiers in Nanotechnology.” The journal is open access and can be viewed from the link below.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnano.2021.675792/full
The 4th Neumorph Seminar was held online on April 30, 2021.
Dr. Takeshi Nishida from KiQ Robotics Corp. gave a lecture on “Reversible Automation.”
The lecture attracted a lot of attention so that 76 participants attended the seminar maximally.
