Opteran Technologies is revolutionizing machine intelligence with their groundbreaking achievement in achieving general purpose autonomy by replicating natural brain function using insects' brains. Unlike IBM's Blue Brain project, which aimed to map the 86 billion neurons in the human brain, Opteran's Chief Science Officer, Professor James Marshall, recognized the potential of studying simpler organisms. Thanks to securing over £6 million in EPSRC grant funding, James and his team developed a process to transfer natural brain function onto silicon. Opteran Technologies stands at the forefront of machine intelligence, leveraging the remarkable navigational abilities of insects, particularly honeybees, with only a million neurons. This innovative approach puts them in a promising position for future growth and development in the field of general purpose autonomy.
