NRP

The HBP Neurorobotics platform is the backbone of the EBRAINS Closed-Loop Neuroscience service. It provides access to an online, physically realistic environment within which users can simulate and use neural models (including spiking neural networks running on neuromorphic chips) composed into functional architectures, connected to physical incarnations (musculoskeletal models, robotic systems). The functional connection of neural models to physical agents allows to explore performance of a number of tasks of interest in closed loop, spanning a range from lower level of abstraction sensorimotor tasks, to multimodal perception or dexterous motion control, to cognitive functions extending to contextual awareness and decision making. The service allows cognitive and computational neuroscientists to explore, in an embodied setting, connections between neural models considered (their structure), their dynamical behavior (activity), and function, expressed through the physical agent. It provides roboticists direct access to cutting-edge neuroscience research, with the tools to investigate efficacy of functional neural models in addressing problems in robotics and embodied AI. The service is currently available as an online platform accessible and usable remotely through a standard browser, or as a local version (using Docker image or through a full source installation).