No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Two very different types of “computers” dominate the world today. The first is the type you’re likely reading this article on—machines powered by transistors and silicon that make our modern society ...

Researchers at Princeton University have developed a living computing device that combines real biological brain cells with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The world’s first “code-deployable” biological computer is now for sale. The Cortical Labs ...

A 3D network of living neurons and electronics can recognize electrical patterns and may help researchers study both brain ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) sound like science fiction to most people. But this technology is getting real, quickly.

Paralysed people are already using brain-computer interfaces to turn their thoughts into text. But there are risks to this ...