Wonder if they got to catch up with Tony
Bio-Inspired Networks to Interface With Nervous System
EPISODE #9 45:14 By
Sunny Bains 04.19.24
Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr.
Sunny Bains about neuromorphic circuits for prosthetics, drug delivery, and more.
Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Fortiss research institute in Munich, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.
Excerpt:
REC: Oh, so Auke came later, after the lamprey. Auke’s work was with salamanders, if I understand correctly. He
basically looked at the different changes of gait from a salamander in water versus a salamander on land, and how that transition happens. That came a little bit later, after we started getting more into how you deal with lamprey control under different conditions of the surface upon which that animal is operating—so in water it’s very different from underground, and how do you make that transition?
I should also point out Tony Lewis, who was another of the starting individuals that worked on this. This is the work he did with George Bekey at USC, where they basically used learning to reconfigure the networks with the type of connectivity that give rise to certain swimming characteristics with CPGs.
So anyway, just to finish the thought: there’s quite a deep level of publication in this area.
SB: Tony Lewis who is now at BrainChip, we should point out.
REC: Yeah. I think he’s the newly appointed CTO.
SB: Yeah. I’m hoping to go and visit him before or after NICE in April.
REC: Excellent. And I think they’re actually—just a little aside—BrainChip just put out their new system. It’s available for an $800 purchase.
GDA: Oh, wow.
REC: I thought, oh, maybe I’ll contact Tony and say, “Hey, can I get one?!” Yeah, Tony and I have published together quite a bit as well, so we have a long history together.