Human Brain Project
EU-funded large-scale project to simulate the human brain and develop neurorobotics platforms, influencing neuromorphic computing and brain-inspired AI.
2 milestones
Blue Brain Project Digital Reconstruction of the Rat Somatosensory Cortex Microcircuitry
On 8 October 2015, Henry Markram and colleagues at the Blue Brain Project published a detailed computational reconstruction of 31,000 neurons and 37 million synapses in a 0.29 mm³ column of juvenile rat somatosensory cortex, creating the first large-scale digital model of a mammalian cortical microcircuit.
Neurorobotics Platform, Human Brain Project
In 2015, the Human Brain Project, a European Commission Flagship Initiative, released its Neurorobotics Platform, a simulation environment allowing researchers to connect large-scale brain models to virtual robot bodies and run closed-loop cognitive experiments without physical hardware.