Artificial Sensory Memory. Issue 15 (30th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wan, Changjin; Cai, Pingqiang; Wang, Ming; Qian, Yan; Huang, Wei; Chen, Xiaodong
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 32:Issue 15(2020)
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• Publication Date: 2019-07-30
• Subjects: artificial neurons -- bioinspired sensors -- memory -- neuromorphic engineering; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201902434
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

Abstract: Sensory memory, formed at the beginning while perceiving and interacting with the environment, is considered a primary source of intelligence. Transferring such biological concepts into electronic implementation aims at achieving perceptual intelligence, which would profoundly advance a broad spectrum of applications, such as prosthetics, robotics, and cyborg systems. Here, the recent developments in the design and fabrication of artificial sensory memory devices are summarized and their applications in recognition, manipulation, and learning are highlighted. The emergence of such devices benefits from recent progress in both bioinspired sensing and neuromorphic engineering technologies and derives from abundant inspiration and benchmarks from an improved understanding of biological sensory processing. Increasing attention to this area would offer unprecedented opportunities toward new hardware architecture of artificial intelligence, which could extend the capabilities of digital systems with emotional/psychological attributes. Pending challenges are also addressed to aspects such as integration level, energy efficiency, and functionality, which would undoubtedly shed light on the future development of translational implementations. Abstract : Transferring the biological concept of sensory memory into electronic implementation is promising to achieve perceptual intelligence. Recent endeavors on design, fabrication, and application of artificial sensory memory are summarized. Such a device would undoubtedly shed light on future advances with respect to various translational implementations such as robotics and prosthetics.