Intel Designs Olfactory Chip To Smell Hazardous Chemicals

While the world is gearing up to fight the pandemic in the form of coronavirus, Intel has made a significant breakthrough. Intel has designed a chip that can smell various chemicals present in the air. Based on Intel's Loihi platform, the chip unsurprisingly uses machine learning algorithms to smell scents in the air. And that includes hazardous chemicals as well. The neuromorphic chip is "based on the architecture of the mammalian olfactory bulb".