Arm Controlled by Simulated Brain

摘要

A group of neuroscientists and software engineers at the University of Waterloo's Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) have built the world's largest functional model of the human brain. Named Spaun, the simulated brain has a digital eye which it uses for visual input, and a robotic arm that it uses to draw its responses. The robotic arm, the output system, is the only motor control system of the model. Researchers used Maplesoft's simulation and modeling platform, MapleSim, to create the arm. Travis DeWolf, the University of Waterloo researcher who built the arm, attributes the success of the complex arm model to MapleSim's symbolic computation power and model simplification capabilities.