Biohybrid Brain Cells Learn Doom in a Petri Dish
Australian startup Cortical Labs shows its CL1 device can steer a culture of living human brain cells to play the video game Doom by translating the game's visuals into electrical stimulation patterns; following an earlier Pong demo, the neurons were taught via the company’s API in under a week, but they still perform like novices and aren’t equivalent to silicon processors, though the work hints at future brain–machine interfaces and more complex robotic control.