Biologically Inspired Hardware: Status and PerspectivesInvited Talk

Biologically Inspired Computing places its emphasis on robustness, adaptability, and emergent organization considering the interaction of many processes. Bio-inspired algorithms exhibitstrength and flexibility in poorly defined or time-variable tasks, as well as when the global behaviour is achieved by simple interacting of species or agents. The above philosophy links various disciplinessuch as artificial and computationally intelligence, evolutionary computation, bio-robotics, agent-based systems, and Digital Ecosystems. In this paper, the main branches of bio-inspired computing are briefly discussed. Successively, the impact of the bioinspiredparadigm on innovative hardware structures is outlined.