A few articles in the scientific press alerted me to some interesting neuromorphic vision work going on at Yale:
Eugenio Culurciello has developed has an extremely efficient visual processing computer on a single chip. This is based on algorithms used by the primate visual system in order to create synthetic vision systems which operate at speeds and power consumption levels that are much closer to those found in biological systems.
This is an excellent example of work in biological neural systems feeding back into development of more effective machine intelligence systems.