Using nanotechnology, we made networks of silver nanowires about one thousandth the width of a human hair. These nanowires naturally form a random network, much like the pile of sticks in a game of pick-up sticks.

The nanowires’ network structure looks a lot like the network of neurons in our brains. Our research is part of a field called neuromorphic computing, which aims to emulate the brain-like functionality of neurons and synapses in hardware.

We built a 'brain' from tiny silver wires. It learns in real time, more efficiently than computer-based AI

A tangle of silver nanowires may pave the way to low-energy real-time machine learning.

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