Nanoelectronics learn the same way as the human brain

Activities in the field of artificial intelligence, like teaching robots to walk, demand ever more powerful, yet at the same time more economical computer chips. While the optimization of conventional microelectronics is slowly reaching its physical limits, nature offers us a blueprint how information can be processed and stored efficiently: our own brain. For the first time, scientists at TU Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have successfully imitated the functioning of neurons using semiconductor materials.