Brains and Machines
Curious to explore the technology advancing Artificial Intelligence beyond the usual headlines? Brains and Machines will introduce you to the people and ideas behind neuromorphic engineering, bio-inspired robotics, and other transformative technologies shaping AI’s future. From spiking neural networks and event-cameras to models of attention and mechanisms for prosthetic control, we investigate how machine cognition is moving forward.
Join Dr Sunny Bains, a scientist, journalist, and lecturer at University College London, as she talks to researchers, engineers, and computer scientists from across the field. With co-host, Dr Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague, and commentator Prof Ralph Etienne-Cummings from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the post-interview discussion provides context and insight into the featured innovations.
Produced in conjunction with Electronic Engineering Times. Check out the EETimes Current podcast for more.
Dr D’Angelo gratefully acknowledges the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Perceiving Touch With Event-Based Neuromorphic Computing
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology interviews her IIT colleague, Dr. Simeon Bamford, who is currently working on tactile …
How Memristors Will Help Machines Think at Different Timescales
In the latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Professor Melika Payvand, who designs neural systems from the circuit-level up at the Institute of Neuroinforma…
ARM Inventor Steve Furber on SpiNNaker 1, 2 and Beyond
In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, Dr. Sunny Bains interviews now-Emeritus Professor Steve Furber as he prepares to leave the University of Manchester. They talk about associative memorie…
How to See ‘Where’ Through Low-Power Event Cameras
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Giulia D’Angelo, from the Czech Technical University in Prague, talks to Professor Guillermo Gallego, from the Technical University of Berlin. …
Seeing Robotics and Machine Vision as Dynamical Systems
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. We dis…
Building Brain-Like Systems from Sub-Threshold Electronics
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, EE Times regular Sunny Bains talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. They talk about building biolog…
Understanding Real Brains with Robotic Rats, and Vice Versa
In this episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann, Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and head of their senso…
On-Chip Learning is Missing Neuromorphic Building Block
In this episode of Brains and Machines, Sunny Bains interviews Elisabetta Chicca, head of the bio-inspired Circuits and Systems research group at the University of Groningen, about building neural ch…
André van Schaik Discusses New Neuromorphic Simulator
In this first episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Sunny Bains interviews André van Schaik from the Western Sydney University about how neuromorphic engineering has changed since the early 90s…