A Synthetic Brain Synapse Is Constructed From Carbon Nanotubes
Building a synthetic brain is no easy undertaking, but researchers working on the problem have to start somewhere. In doing so, engineers at the University of Southern California have taken a huge step by building a synthetic synapse from carbon nanotubes. In tests, their synapse circuit functions very much like a real neuron--neurons being the very building blocks of the brain. Tapping the unique properties of carbon nanotubes, their lab was able to essentially recreate brain function in a very fractional way. Related ArticlesComing Soon: a Synthetic Brain Built from Tens of Thousands of Smartphone Chips"Wet Computer" Literally Simulates Brain CellsTagsScience, Clay Dillow, artificial brain, carbon nanotubes, health, nanotechnology, synthetic brainOf course, duplicating synapse firings in a nanotube circuit and creating synthetic brain function are two very different things. The human brain, as we well know, is very complex and hardly static like the inner workings of a computer. Over time...