Neuromorphic Devices for Brain-inspired Computing

7Neuromorphic Perceptual Systems with Emerging Devices

Ying Zhu, Changjin Wan, and Qing Wan

Nanjing University, School of Electronic Science & Engineering, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China

7.1 Background

In the 1980s, Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky, and others stated that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high level in humans) requires very little computation, whereas sensorimotor skills (comparatively low level in humans) require enormous computational resources [1]. This is so-called the Moravec's paradox, which is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers. They also pointed out that we should expect the difficulty of reverse-engineering any human skill to be roughly proportional ...