Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The aim of the neurorobotics platform of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is to offer scientists from various fieldsa software and hardware infrastructure that allows them to connect brain models to detailed simulations of robot bodies andenvironments. In the ramp-up phase of the HBP a first version of this platform has been developed, which allows researchersto design and run simple experiments in cognitive neuroscience using simulated robots and simulated environments linkedto simplified versions of HBP brain models. The developed tools, i.e., various designers, simulation engines and simulationviewers, allow researchers to operate robots remotely, to repeat in-silico experiments and to visualize the behavior of the robotsin real-time. Together with five other ICT platforms developed in the HBP, these technologies will also enable the developmentof brain-inspired computing systems. The first version of this platform has been released March 2016 and is described in thiscontribution.