The MEMBRAIN project aim to develop a radically new concept of physically grounded computing nanoarchitecture based on self-organising memristive nanonetworks of dendrites, able to efficiently process information and to store knowledge on the same physical substrate at the matter level through physical laws.

Overcoming the concept of nanotechnology as a simple advancement of microtechnology, the ambition is to compute like nature – thermodynamically – to push computation near fundamental limits of efficiency.