Tweak gets chameleon material to mimic brain cells
Adding small quantities of the element boron to vanadium dioxide makes the material function like a synapse, researchers report. Each waking moment, our brain processes a massive amount of data to make sense of the outside world. Thus, by imitating the way the human brain solves everyday problems, neuromorphic systems have tremendous potential to revolutionize big data analysis and pattern recognition problems that are a struggle for current digital technologies. For artificial systems to be more brain-like, however, they need to replicate how nerve cells communicate at their terminals, calle...
Source: futurity.org
