We know . That ’s a lot of quotation brand . Also the robot ’s baseball bat looks a bit like an oversized fly sheet swatter . Whatever – this matter is still telling .
The substantial - time cerebellum was created by Tadashi Yamazaki and Jun Igarashi , of Japan ’s RIKEN Brain Science Institute . An accelerometer located at the stern of the batting batting cage detects the flight of steps path of the ball , and relay that selective information to a graphics processor ( GPU ) , similar to what you might come up in a play computing machine .
This GPU is the golem ’s hokey brain . According to the researchers , it be a large - scale leaf spiking mesh model of a cerebellum , including “ more than 100,000 spiking neuron units within naturalistic parameters . ” ( The neuron in a transfix neural mesh , like the neuron in your brain , fire in accord with the generation of false neuron potentials . fundamentally , the GPU ’s artificial neurons obey the same go / no - go rules as the neuron in your headspring , make spike neural connection some of the most realistic wit simulators out there . ) The GPU does some phone number - crunching and tell the automaton how honest to move in decree to make contact . But the GPU also learns from its misunderstanding . Even if the golem swing and misses , it ’s only a matter of time until it ’s nailing every pitch ( cater the ball is tossed at the same amphetamine and along the same flight path every time ) . If the pitch - f number and track are change , the automaton see again .
As Wired ’s Daniela Hernandez point out , this is not the first metre researchers have used a neural meshwork to keep in line a robot :
A squad of scientists in Europe , for example , have used an unreal cerebellum to control arobotic arm . But according to [ Yamazaki ] … the baseball game - playing automaton is the secondly largest poser of its form and it runs in realtime , meaning its much quicker than other system . That signify the GPU brainpower is better accommodate to master external ironware , he read .
The report describing the enquiry is published , liberal of charge , inNeural Networks .
[ Neural NetworksviaWired ]
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