The Human Brain Project

I've had a bit of funding from the HBP for the last couple of years and I have an RF (Alberto) starting in January.
I'm in the neuromorphic computing subproject, and what I do is write systems in emaulated neurons (mostly SpiNNaker but also BrainScales), and simulated neurons.
There's also a neurorobotics subproject. They've got a virtual environement, with some robots that are accessible over the internet.
One of the big things I've done until now is make neural agents in virtual environments.
The current task is to make them in NRP virtual environments.
One of the cool things we could do with a neural cognitive architecture is to use it to develop agents that functioned in these VEs.
Similarly, the SpiNNaker guys have a (roughly) billion neuron machine.
It doesn't quite work with the NRP VE yet, but this means we could have a big neural machine in a VE.
Similarly, BrainScales isn't quite as developed yet, but it goes at 10,000 real time. So, if this worked, with a VE, an agent could live for a year in about an hour.