FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BOSTON, MA — March 10, 2026 — Neurala, the company behind the patented Lifelong Deep Neural NetworkTM (L-DNN) technology, today announced that the Neurala Brain has been selected for induction into the 2026 Space Technology Hall of Fame® by the Space Foundation. The induction ceremony will take place at the annual Space Symposium, April 13–16, 2026, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Space Technology Hall of Fame, founded in 1988 in partnership with NASA, recognizes technologies born from space programs that have since improved life on Earth. The Neurala Brain is honored for its origins in NASA-funded research and its subsequent deployment inside enterprise products at global scale.
From space research to the intelligent edge
Developed in collaboration with NASA, the Neurala Brain is a brain-inspired AI technology that solves a problem conventional deep learning cannot: enabling machines to learn continuously on edge devices, without cloud connectivity, without large datasets, and without expensive GPU hardware. The project was backed by NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programme, with Dr. Mark Motter of NASA’s Langley Research Center serving as technical representative after identifying the technology’s relevance to autonomous exploration systems.
The technology was created by Neurala’s three co-founders — Dr. Massimiliano Versace, Dr. Anatoli Gorchet, and Dr. Heather Ames — leaders in artificial intelligence and brain-inspired computing. Their research produced the patented L-DNN architecture, which collapses the full AI workflow — training, adaptation, and inference — onto the device itself. The result is a vision AI engine that runs on standard hardware, keeps all data on-device by design, and allows end users to train custom models with a fraction of the images required by conventional approaches.
“This recognition reflects something we have believed since the beginning: that the most important properties of the Neurala Brain — learning on the device, without the cloud, without massive datasets — are not engineering trade-offs. They are fundamental advantages,” said Dr. Anatoli Gorchet, CEO of Neurala. “We are proud that NASA saw that potential first, and we are proud of what our partners have built with this technology since.”
“The induction of the Neurala Brain into the Space Technology Hall of Fame reflects the power of space innovation to drive meaningful progress on Earth,” said Heather Pringle, CEO of Space Foundation.
Deployed at scale inside enterprise products
Today, Neurala’s L-DNN technology is licensed to OEM hardware companies, software platform companies, and system integrators who embed it into their own products. Neurala’s partners include FLIR Systems, Zebra Technologies, IHI, Antares Vision, and Sony Semiconductor Solutions. Across these deployments and others, Neurala’s technology has been embedded in approximately 80 million systems and devices worldwide.
Neurala’s approach is purpose-built for OEM integration: the full AI workflow runs at the edge, on the partner’s hardware, with no cloud dependency and no ongoing infrastructure cost. Because training and inference both happen on-device, data never leaves the device at any point in the workflow — an architectural property of L-DNN, not a configuration option. For partners building products in regulated or security-sensitive markets, this distinction matters.
The Space Technology Hall of Fame induction adds to a record that traces directly from NASA’s investment in autonomous AI research to enterprise products operating in the field today — a proof point, the Space Foundation notes, of the enduring return on space exploration.
About Neurala
Neurala is the company behind the patented Lifelong Deep Neural Network (L-DNN) — a vision AI technology built for OEM embedding. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Neurala licenses its technology to hardware companies, software platform companies, and system integrators who need to embed capable, production-ready vision AI into their products, without building it from scratch. L-DNN enables the full AI workflow — training and inference — to run at the edge, on standard hardware, with small datasets, and with no cloud dependency. Neurala’s technology is embedded in products used by FLIR Systems, Zebra Technologies, IHI, Antares Vision, and Sony Semiconductor Solutions. For more information, visit www.neurala.com
About the Space Technology Hall of Fame
The Space Technology Hall of Fame was launched in 1988 by Space Foundation in partnership with NASA. It honours individuals, organizations, and companies that adapt technologies originally developed for space to improve the quality of life on Earth. Honorees are nominated by the space community and global space agency technology transfer offices, reviewed and selected by a space and technology expert panel, and inducted at the annual Space Symposium. For more information, visit www.spacetechhalloffame.org
Media contact:
Daniel Glasser
SVP of Operations
Neurala
dglasser@neurala.com
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