Lockheed Martin developing smarter robotics in South Jersey
A major corporation’s subdivision in our region is becoming a leading innovator in “brain-inspired computing,” according to a Philadelphia Business Journal story by their technology writer Peter Key, who, our sources tell us, can rock a mean air guitar.
The Cherry Hill-based Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories has spent the last four years researching “brain-inspired computing” and is poised to make inroads in the science fiction-style technology, fueled by recent funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — which is credited for offering the initial funding for a little project that helped lead to the Internet.
Lockheed’s research falls into four general categories, Key reports:
- brain-inspired attentional search — involves monitoring the electrical activity of a person’s brain and using human information retention tools to improve computer recognition
- brain box research — involves teaching computers to learn by designing them to recognize when their previous tasks are applicable to new situations, reducing redundancy
- sensor box research — involves programming computers to discount large amounts of information except the most necessary pieces, increasing speed and evaluation skills
- attentional analysis — involves teaching computers to use orientation, color and motion to scan large amounts of multimedia to identify relevance
Much of this technology is said to be “security” orientated, which I hope frightens you as much as it does me.
And, below, dessert. No robots were hurt in the filming of this Messianic promotional video from Lockheed.
