Over at the other place I railed against the naysayers who attack the idea that NASA was going to be a huge commercial opportunity.
Even here some have expressed a less aggressive though nonetheless similar viewpoint.
Well I am a very petty mean spirited individual who as a retired litigation lawyer loves revelling in being proven right which on this occasion comes from the fact that my position has always been that having NASA validate and prove Brainchip’s technology opens up opportunities in the military and commercial space of incredible value.
The obvious involvement of Brainchip in the communication space has clearly been facilitated by the following NASA driven and funded proof of concept research:
“Validating the Cognitive Network Controller on NASA’s SCaN Testbed
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Abstract:The Cognitive Network Controller (CNC) defines a neuromorphic architecture where a spiking neural network can both encode network performance observations and select the optimal actions (e.g., routes) for the context of those observations. Because of these features, the CNC can quickly adapt to changes in the operational environment to either maintain or improve selected performance metrics. This behavior can be attractive for a space networking scenario with orbiting and ground-based assets that are either stationary or manned, bringing an elevated level of autonomy in network communication decisions. Using the SCaN testbed as a laboratory facility in orbit, we evaluated the adaptation abilities of the CNC applied to a space network routing application. Towards this end, the CNC design and the related neuromorphic processor were implemented in software and deployed on the flight computer of the SCaN testbed, and then applied to route bundles to a ground station over parallel links. This work likely constitutes the earliest demonstration of a space application for neuromorphic computing and a basic validation of the online adaptation capabilities of the CNC”
Lumpy or not the road to Brainchip’s commercial success is crowded with opportunity upon opportunity.
My opinion only DYOR
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NASA spinoff technologies
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NASA spinoff technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of
NASA, through research and development contracts, such as
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or
STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research. Information on new NASA technology that may be useful to industry is available in periodical and website form in "NASA Tech Briefs", while successful examples of commercialization are reported annually in the NASA publication "Spinoffs". The Spinoff publication has documented more than 2,000 technologies over time.
In 1979, notable
science fiction author
Robert A. Heinlein helped bring awareness to the spinoffs when he was asked to appear before
Congress after recovering from one of the earliest known
vascular bypass operations to correct a blocked artery. In his testimony, reprinted in his 1980 book
Expanded Universe, Heinlein claimed that four NASA spinoff technologies made the surgery possible, and that they were only a few from a long list of NASA spinoff technologies from space development.
[1]
Since 1976,
[2] the NASA Technology Transfer Program
[3] has connected
NASA resources to private industry, referring to the commercial products as spinoffs. Well-known products that NASA claims as spinoffs include
memory foam (originally named temper foam),
freeze-dried food, firefighting equipment, emergency "
space blankets",
DustBusters,
cochlear implants,
LZR Racer swimsuits, and
CMOS image sensors. As of 2016, NASA has published over 2,000 other spinoffs in the fields of computer technology, environment and agriculture, health and medicine, public safety, transportation, recreation, and industrial productivity. Contrary to common belief, NASA did not invent
Tang,
Velcro or
Teflon.
[4]
Because of interest in the reports, NASA decided to create the annual publications in color.
Spinoff was first published in 1976,
[5] and since then, NASA has distributed free copies to universities, the media, inventors and the general public.
Spinoff describes how NASA works with various industries and small businesses to bring new technology to the public. As of 2016, there were over 1,920
Spinoff products in the database dating back to 1976.
[6]
a long list of Nasa spinoffs can be found here
en.wikipedia.org