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'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots
Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to re-home human brain cells in artificial bodies.
In what must've felt like a Dr. Frankenstein moment, researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment, and watched this horrific cyborg abomination learn to play Pong within about five minutes. Because the brain organoid is only able to 'see' the world through the electrical signals provided to it, it can theoretically train itself up on how to pilot its mini-gundam in a fully simulated environment, allowing it to get most of its falling and crashing out of the way without jeopardizing its fleshy intelligence engine. Now, to be crystal clear, the fully exposed, pink lollipop-style brain organoids in the robot images above are mockups – "demonstration diagrams of future application scenarios" – rather than brain-controlled prototypes.
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