Alexander A. Wolf

We built a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to fully control a physical robot arm (6-DOF), and it's running entirely on a Raspberry Pi (no HAT). In our approach, the SNN starts untrained and drives the servos directly, learning in real time through local learning rules (no backprop or gradient descent). The goal with Twitch-y (the robot + SNN brain) is to let it explore and build an understanding of its own body until it can touch the plate on the mat, while also validating the SNN architecture and some of the math. In the video: - Top right: the SNN architecture - Bottom right: the mini-brain spiking in real time while controlling the arm - Left: Twitch-y (Hugging Face SO-101) If you want to learn more about Artificial Brains, come visit us this Friday (13th), at Founders Inc 👉