An operational vision-chip prototype with a wide-range of potential applications in artificial-vision systems is presented. Its functionality includes concurrent image-transduction, programmable image-processing, image-storage, and algorithmic control over a network of 20 x 22 identical cells. The prototype has been designed and manufactured in 0.8μm CMOS standard technology, and has a total ar...

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been shown to be impaired on some nondeclarative memory tasks that require cognitive skill learning (perceptual-motor sequence learning, probabilistic classification). To determine what other skill-based tasks are impaired, 13 patients with PD were tested on artificial grammar learning, artificial grammar learning with transfer to novel lettersets, an...

In this paper, we present a prototype selection technique for imbalanced data, Fuzzy Rough Imbalanced Prototype Selection (FRIPS), to improve the quality of the artificial instances generated by the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling TEchnique (SMOTE). Using fuzzy rough set theory, the noise level of each instance is measured, and instances for which the noise level exceeds a certain threshold le...

“Without embodiment artificial intelligence is nothing.” Algorithms in the field of artificial intelligence are mostly tested on a computer instead of testing on a real platform. Our anthropomorphic robot ZAR5 (in German ZweiArm-Roboter in the 5 version) is the first biologically inspired and completely artificial muscle driven robot torso that can be fully controlled by a data suit and two fiv...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle degenerative disease, due to absence of dystrophin. There is currently no effective treatment for DMD. Our aim is to up-regulate the expression level of the dystrophin related gene utrophin in DMD, complementing in this way the lack of dystrophin functions. To this end we designed and engineered several synthetic zinc finger based transcripti...

Recently, several three-axial MEMS-based force sensors have been developed. This kind of force micro sensor is also called tactile sensor in literature for its similarities in size and sensitivity with human mechanoreceptors. Therefore, we believe these three-axial force sensors being able to analyse textures properties while sliding on a surface, as would do a person with his finger. In this p...

Smith and Osherson proposed the prototype view for concept representation and category cls, Hiflcafion. In the prototype view, concepts are represented as prototypes. A prototype is a collection of salient properties of a conceptUnder the prototype view, a~ instance is classified as a memberofa concept ifit is sufficiently similar to the prototype of this concept. Although the prototype view ha...