An organic brain-inspired platform with neurotransmitter closed-loop control, actuation and reinforcement learning

Abstract

Organic neuromorphic platforms have recently received growing interest for the implementation and integration of artificial and hybrid neuronal networks. Here, achieving closed-loop and learning/training processes as in the human brain is still a major challenge especially exploiting time-dependent biosignalling such as neurotransmitter release. Here, we present an integrated organic platform capable of cooperating with standard silicon technologies, to achieve brain-inspired computing <i>via</i> adaptive synaptic potentiation and depression, in a closed-loop fashion. The microfabricated platform could be interfaced and control a robotic hand which ultimately was able to learn the grasping of differently sized objects, autonomously.