Here are some of the real advances in science and technology that inspired The Neuromorphs:

Artificial Intelligence

• Neuromorphic Electronics Headed Toward Human Brain Efficiency
• How Scientists are Building a Better Brain-On-A-Chip
• Advancing AI With a Supercomputer: A Blueprint for an Optoelectronic 'Brain'
• How the Enlightenment Ends
• The Future of AI is Neuromorphic. Meet the Scientists Building Digital 'Brains' For Your Phone
• Neuromorphic Chips: Microprocessors configured more like brains than traditional chips could soon make computers far more astute about what’s going on around them
• Intel’s New Chip Design Takes Pointers From Your Brain
• Artificial neurons compute faster than the human brain
• IBM Develops a New Chip That Functions Like a Brain
• Silicon Brains, Neuromorphic Computing
• Artificial brains learn to adapt
• Think Fast – Is Neuromorphic Computing Set to Leap Forward?
• Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
• BrainScaleS - Neuromorphic processors
• AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World’s Brightest Minds
• Stephen Hawking AI Warning: Artificial Intelligence Could Destroy Civilization
• Why AI Is Still Waiting For Its Ethics Transplant
• AI Could Revolutionize War as Much as Nukes
• Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
• Encoded Bling: Diamonds Could Store Huge Amounts of Data

 Robots

• Cyborgs will replace humans and remake the world, James Lovelock says
• Robot servants are going to make your life easy, then they'll ruin it
• The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
• How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World
• US Navy funds morality lessons for robots
• Building Artificial Brains With Electronics
• "Deep Learning" will soon give us supersmart robots
• A Tentacled, Flexible Breakthrough
• Inspired by origami, scientists build artificial muscle that lifts 1000 times its own weight
• Self-Healing Robot Muscles Are Stronger, Faster and More Flexible Than People—and They Only Cost 10 Cents to Make
• Soft, Self-Healing Devices Mimic Biological Muscles
• The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All the World's Robots
• An artificial nerve system developed at Stanford gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch
• Stanford develops an electronic glove that gives robots a sense of touch
• A Clever and Simple Robot Hand
• Neuromorphic circuits impart a sense of touch
• Are Killer Robots the Future of War?
• Elon Musk leads 116 Experts Calling for Outright Ban On Killer Robots
• Killer Robots: AI Experts Urge Ban on Weaponized AI With ‘Life and Death Powers Over Humans’
• Sorry, Banning 'Killer Robots' Just isn't Practical
• The Robot Revolution Will Be the Quietest One
• The Robotification of Society is Coming
• Do We Need to Prepare for the Robot Uprising?
• Killer Robots a Real Threat
• Arms Control Groups Urge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
• The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots that Could Kill on their Own
• Robot Weapons: What’s the Harm?
• Navy Robots Test the Limits of Autonomy
• Scientists Campaign Against Killer Robots
• We can now build autonomous killing machines and that's a very, very bad idea
• Boston Dynamics legged robots
• Awesome Robot Spider
• Hexa: The Fascinating Yet Unsettling Six-Legged Robot
• Mantis Robot #1, Tech Specs and Overview
• Mantis Robot #2, Detailed Driving Breakdown
• Biggest Spider in the World: Yokahama's Spider robot
• This Robot Snake Means You No Harm, Really

Weaponry

• The Most Terrifying and Powerful Protective Uniforms in the World
• What’s the Future of Armor: Liquid or Solid?
• Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
• Bulletproof graphene makes ultra-strong body armour
• Magnetorheological fluid used in liquid body armor
• Researchers Develop Completely New Kind of Polymer
• Superelastic battery
• Color-Changing 'Squid Skin' Made in Lab
• Firms Pitch Exoskeletons and Body Armor for SOCOM's Iron Man Suit
  
• How Close Are We to Elysium-Style Exosuits?
• EXACTO sniper rifle and test
• Tracking point sniper system
• Fearing Bombs That Can Pick Whom to Kill
• MAUL (shotgun)
• Mk 19 grenade launcher
• M134 GAU-17 Gatling Gun
• Special Atomic Demolition Munition