PyBrain was developed originally as a joint project between PhD students at IDSIA and at the CogBotLab at the TU Munich. Part of the development was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grants 200020-122124, 200021-111968/1 and 200021-113364/1, through the German Excellence Cluster Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys), as well as by the National Research Fund Luxembourg through AFR grant number 2915104.