Iguana Robotics Inc.

New NSF Award Funds Research in 'Smart Chips'

November 30, 1999

Neuromorphic Chips for Toy Market and Beyond

The National Science Foundation awarded Iguana Robotics, Inc., a Phase I SBIR contract to demonstrate the feasibility of a Color Processing Visual Chip. This chip functionality will include an onboard imaging device as well as feature space object recognition capability all in a single integrated chip. Onboard learning will allow the chip to adapt to new stimuli.

Chip will find usage in applications from Toys to Neural Prosthesis The objective of the new NSF grant is to develop a chip that can be integrated into intelligent toys, personal robots and visual prosthesis devices. For example, a toy using this technology may recognize other toy robots like itself. This ‘kin’ recognition capability is basic to interaction with others of its species. The device could also locate, follow and play with a bouncing ball, for example, or ‘see’ a child’s face.

For more information go see : Research.

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