Brains and Machines
Episodes
Artificial Hearing: From Ear Drums to Tuning Forks
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Claudia Lenk’s group creates brain-inspired hearing systems with micromechanical hair cells. In this episode of Brains and Machines, she talk...
A Theoretical Framework for Neuromorphic Technology?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sunny talks to Dr Brad Aimone from Sandia National Laboratories who works with the world’s biggest neuromorphic platforms. He explains how this a...
Neurons Close the Loop from Insect Perception to Action
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sunny talks to Prof Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who uses physical robots to validate neural mechanisms in cricket...
Can Neuromorphic Be Low-Power, Reconfigurable, and Scalable?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Gert Cauwenberghs has been working toward building brain-scale systems for decades. At the University of California San Diego, he’s now on...
Event-Driven E-Skins Protect Both Robots and Humans
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Gordon Cheng builds humanoid robots that can feel their environment using artificial skin. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he talks...
Digital Prototypes May Enable Analog Neuromorphic Chips
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Charlotte Frenkel from the Technical University of Delft set records with a low-power neuromorphic chip she designed as part of her Ph.D. In this ...
IBM Used Mathematics as Compass on Journey to NorthPole
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dharmendra Modha’s TrueNorth chip added the word neuromorphic to the technorati lexicon back in 2014. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he ta...
Rippling Signals May Provide Working Memory in the Brain
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For 50 years Dr. Terry Sejnowski has modelled the brain and used his insights to help inform AI. In this episode of Brains and Machines, he talks t...
Making Analog Chip Designs Without Analog Designers
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jennifer Hasler of Georgia Tech is best known for her work with field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs). In this episode of Brains and Machine...
BrainChip’s IP for Targeting AI Applications at the Edge
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Lewis, CTO for BrainChip, and four other key scientists talk to Sunny Bains of the University College London. They discuss their business strat...
Robots Need Physical, Not Just Artificial, Intelligence
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, emeritus Professor Rodney Brooks of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently CTO of Robust AI, talks...
Embracing the Efficiency of the Neuromorphic Hairball
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Katie Schuman of the University of Tennessee explains the advantages of evolutionary approaches in neu...
Chip Combines Analog and Digital Neurons for Sensor Data
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, UCL’s Sunny Bains talks to four key figures at Innatera, a spin out from the University of Delft in the Ne...
Carver Mead Says Neuromorphic Efficiency Can Help AI
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, UCL’s Sunny Bains talks parallelism, neural net efficiency and risk taking with Caltech’s Prof. Carver ...
Next-Gen Neuromorphic Researchers Look to Future
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Sunny Bains and Dr. Giulia D’Angelo talk to four early career researchers: Dr....
SynSense Research Head Talks Combined Sensing, Processing
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Dylan Muir, the head of research at SynSense. They discuss the company’s produc...
Half-Human–Scale SpiNNaker 2 Machine on Cloud in 2024
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains talks with Professor Christian Mayr from the Technical University of Dresden, who worked on...
Bio-Inspired Networks to Interface With Nervous System
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr. Sunny Bains about neuromorphic ...
Choosing the Right Technologies for Hybrid AI Chips
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains discusses neuromorphic chips with Dr. Amirreza Yousefzadeh, who most recently worked at imec a...
Why Sound Processing Takes Time, Not Just Frequency
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Shih-Chii Liu, co-director of the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)—part o...
Algorithms Help Spiking Neural Networks Learn to Learn
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Professor Emre Neftci, director of the Neuromorphic Software Ecosystems group at the Peter Grünberg Institute...
Giving the Humanoid iCub Embodied, Neuromorphic Vision
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi, head of the event-driven perception for the robotics group at the Italian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Genoa, develops ...
Tobi Delbrück Talks Caltech, Cameras, and Neural Control
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Tobi Delbrück, one of the original neuromorphic engineers from Carver ...
Ferroelectric Memristors and Exotic Materials to Drive AI
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda, director of the Groningen...
Perceiving Touch With Event-Based Neuromorphic Computing
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology interviews her IIT colleague, Dr. S...
How Memristors Will Help Machines Think at Different Timescales
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Professor Melika Payvand, who designs neural systems from ...
ARM Inventor Steve Furber on SpiNNaker 1, 2 and Beyond
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains interviews now-Emeritus Professor Steve Furber as he prepares to leave the Universi...
How to See ‘Where’ Through Low-Power Event Cameras
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo, from the Czech Technical University in Prague, talks to Professor Guil...
Seeing Robotics and Machine Vision as Dynamical Systems
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing G...
Building Brain-Like Systems from Sub-Threshold Electronics
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, from the Institute of Neuro...
Understanding Real Brains with Robotic Rats, and Vice Versa
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann, Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineerin...
On-Chip Learning is Missing Neuromorphic Building Block
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains interviews Elisabetta Chicca, head of the bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group at t...
André van Schaik Discusses New Neuromorphic Simulator
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains interviews André van Schaik from the Western Sydney University about how ne...