Brain Cells on a Chip Learn DOOM in a Week: A Breakthrough for Biological Computing

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Researchers at Cortical Labs have achieved an exciting feat: teaching living human neurons on a chip to play the classic video game DOOM in a week! This remarkable achievement demonstrates significant progress in biological computing and opens doors to innovative real-world applications such as advanced robotics. The use of Python for programming further democratizes access to this technology.
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""Unlike the Pong work that we did a few years ago, which represented years of painstaking scientific effort, this demonstration has been done in a matter of days by someone who previously had relatively little expertise working directly with biology," says Brett Kagan of Cortical Labs."
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