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Keck backs Rice bid to ‘build a brain’

Rice University scientists are starting small as they begin to figure out how to build an artificial brain from the bottom up.


Electrical and computer engineer Jacob Robinson of Rice’s Brown School of Engineering and Celina Juliano, an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Davis, have won a $1 million Keck Foundation grant to advance the team’s synthetic neurobiology effort to define the connections between neurons and muscles that drive programmed behaviors in living animals.


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