Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space 'Ada'

Kynan Eng; David Klein; Andreas Bäbler; Ulysses Bernardet; Mark Blanchard; Marcio Costa; Tobi Delbrück; Rodney J Douglas; Klaus Hepp; Jonatas Manzolli; Matti Mintz; Fabian Roth; Ueli Rutishauser; Klaus Wassermann; Adrian M Whatley; Aaron Wittmann; Reto Wyss; Paul F M J Verschure

doi:10.1515/REVNEURO.2003.14.1-2.145

Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space 'Ada'

Kynan Eng, David Klein, Andreas Bäbler, Ulysses Bernardet, Mark Blanchard, Marcio Costa, Tobi Delbrück, Rodney J Douglas, Klaus Hepp, Jonatas Manzolli, Matti Mintz, Fabian Roth, Ueli Rutishauser, Klaus Wassermann, Adrian M Whatley, Aaron Wittmann, Reto Wyss, Paul F M J Verschure

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While much is now known about the operation and organisation of the brain at the neuronal and microcircuit level, we are still some way from understanding it as a complete system from the lowest to the highest levels of description. One way to gain such an integrative understanding of neural systems is to construct them. We have built the largest neuromorphic system yet known, an interactive space called 'Ada' that is able to interact with many people simultaneously using a wide variety of sensory and behavioural modalities. 'She' received 553,700 visitors over 5 months during the Swiss Expo.02 in 2002. In this paper we present the broad motivations, design and technologies behind Ada, and discuss the construction and analysis of the system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	145-180
Number of pages	36
Journal	Reviews in the Neurosciences
Volume	14
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/REVNEURO.2003.14.1-2.145
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2003

Keywords

neuromorphic
neural networks
robotics
behaviour selection
emotion model

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Eng, K., Klein, D., Bäbler, A., Bernardet, U., Blanchard, M., Costa, M., Delbrück, T., Douglas, R. J., Hepp, K., Manzolli, J., Mintz, M., Roth, F., Rutishauser, U., Wassermann, K., Whatley, A. M., Wittmann, A., Wyss, R., & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (2003). Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space 'Ada'. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 14(1-2), 145-180. https://doi.org/10.1515/REVNEURO.2003.14.1-2.145

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