Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue
Credit: Yo Kobayashi, 2025. Most computers run on microchips, but what if we’ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were…
World’s first ‘body in a box’ biological computer uses human brain cells with silicon-based computing
Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has introduced what it claims to be “the world’s first code deployable biological computer,” which combines human brain cells with traditional silicon-based computing. The system,…