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Re:Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit i... by shard on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:19AM (#24313481)
If you think of transistors as analog computational devices, 100 is not that small. There are animals with ~200-300 neurons, so it's at least within the range of possibility to have a fairly autonomous robot with only 100.
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Re:Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit i... by joycian on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:44AM (#24313620)
A neuron contains thousands if not millions of transistor-equivalents in the form of gene level and ion level switches. I'm not saying that you couldn't do it with 100 transistors, or that everything in a neuron is needed for this application, but I just wanted to clarify.
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Re:Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit i... by shard on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:29AM (#24315639)
Right, the transistor is not fully simulating a neuron, just a first order approximation of the electrical impulse response. It's close enough for government work, as they say.
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