About

A longstanding debate concerns the relative importance of ideas versus tools in scientific progress. The physicist Freeman Dyson stated that “Surprises in science often arise from new tools rather than from new concepts”. However, he went on to say that bold conceptual thinking could also lead, although enabled by new tools. The bidirectionality of the relationship between new tools and new ideas is very well illustrated by what is currently happening at the intersection of neurotechnology and neuroscience, whereby a clear symbiosis has developed  between what we can measure and analyze,  and new levels of understanding.  
The Neurotechnology Warehouse provides the opportunity to combine concepts from fundamental neuroscience, cognitive science, neurology, and psychiatry,  with the increasing and ever accelerating number of offerings from neurotechnology and AI. Bringing together scientists, clinicians, engineers, artists, and entrepreneurs, the Warehouse generates new scientific discoveries, novel tech development,   and aids translation and implementation to the clinical setting. 

The Warehouse will provide access to expertise in AI and generative AI, motion capture, immersive exergaming experiences, VR and AR. These software services, along with accompanying hardware such as soft robotics, will catalyze the translation of novel technologies from early-stage development to prototypes ready for first-in-human testing, licensing and spin-out into start-ups. Focus will also be placed on providing an interface between neuroscience and AI, with activities in the areas of synthetic neuroscience and  neuro-AI, which seek to understand and apply the robustness and flexibility of neural systems to machine-based perception and action.

Mission 

1. To provide a research environment that will allow novel forms of basic and applied human research to be conducted. This research will borrow from and extend frameworks offered by the highly successful basic neuroscience program at CF. 

2. To develop novel approaches to track and train behavioral change in health and disease. These include combining generative AI with motion capture technologies to create new immersive exergaming environments for the treatment of psychiatric conditions, cognitive decline and movement disorders. 

3. To use hardware, such as soft robotics, and AI for advancing the new field of synthetic neuroscience. Real, rather than virtual or simulated, synthetic animals (animats) are used to provide insights into the architectural and computational principles underlying the neural control of behavior. used to construct  hierarchical neural systems.