{"id":2502,"date":"2021-01-22T17:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1334985"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:44:30","slug":"new-robomorphic-computing-method-aims-to-speed-up-slow-witted-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018robomorphic\u2019 computing method aims to speed up slow-witted robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F01%2FUntitled-design-2021-01-22T173840.209.png&amp;signature=470d8cb1d99de57b6f55af99cbffad72\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>MIT researchers have developed a new way of speeding up a robot\u2019s reactions. They call it \u201crobomorphic computing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The method is designed to shrink the gap between a robot\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d and movements by creating customized chips that serve its specific computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>The system\u2019s inventors believe it could enhance a variety of robotics applications \u2014 including frontline medical care of COVID-19&nbsp;patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be fantastic if we could have robots that could help reduce risk for patients and hospital workers,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-01\/miot-dc012021.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Dr Sabrina Neuman, an MIT CSAIL graduate who designed the method.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2021\/01\/21\/how-this-company-leveraged-ai-to-become-the-netflix-of-finland\/\">How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Neuman says there are three main steps in a robot\u2019s operation: perception, mapping and localization,&nbsp;and plotting a course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Robomorphic computing attempts to hasten this process by producing&nbsp;specialized hardware that performs computing tasks more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>The user first inputs the physical parameters of a robot, which the&nbsp;system translates into mathematical matrices.<\/p>\n<p>It then creates a hardware architecture that\u2019s specialized to&nbsp;run calculations on the matrices. This results in a chip design that\u2019s customized to the robot\u2019s computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say a chip they programmed from the system\u2019s specifications performed eight times faster than a CPU, and 86 times faster than a GPU.<\/p>\n<p>They now hope to fabricate a custom motion-planning chip for every robot.<\/p>\n<p>Neuman plans to automate the entire&nbsp;<span>robomorphic computing process, so users can just drag and drop their robot\u2019s parameters to produce a hardware description.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span>I think that\u2019s the thing that\u2019ll push it over the edge and make it really useful,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/asplos-conference.org\/abstracts\/asplos21-paper857-extended_abstract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">research paper abstract<\/a> at the website for the ASPLOS conference, where Neuman will present the work this April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published January 22, 2021 \u2014 17:44 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/01\/22\/new-robomorphic-computing-method-aims-to-speed-up-slow-witted-robots\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have developed a new way of speeding up a robot\u2019s reactions. They call it \u201crobomorphic computing.\u201d The method is designed to shrink the gap between a robot\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d and movements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}