The so-called "digital nervous system" allows the robot to continuously learn over time, eventually even being able to achieve human-level intelligence, the company says.

Learning to read one's nervous system can help one pay more attention to the pleasant or neutral sensations connected to well-being. Shifting from conventional thinking to trauma and resiliency- ...

This finding upends a long-held idea that organisms can’t engage in associative learning without a central nervous system, according to a study published Friday in the journal Current Biology.

The nervous system of a Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) includes four knoblike rhopalia that dangle off the bell of its body. Each rhopalium houses six eyes and about 1,000 neurons.

Specifically, the researchers' machine learning approach, called an actor-model framework, was especially good at finding a "sweet spot" for image contrast. Ghezzi uses Photoshop as an example.