Cortical Labs, the Australian biotech startup that wired living neurons to a video game, now faces a distinctly biological constraint as it scales its technology: the cells powering its computers need ...

In 2022, a team of researchers in Melbourne placed a cluster of lab-grown human neurons onto a chip and watched them learn to play Pong. The cells had never been part of a brain. They had been ...

An Australian startup has unveiled the world's first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in ...

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Biological computing startup Cortical Labs has launched CL1, what it is calling the world’s first commercial biological computer. The technology combines “lab-cultivated neurons from human stem cells” ...

An Australian startup called Cortical Labs has built what appears to be a David Cronenbergian box of grotesqueries that looks a lot sleeker and modern than its innards belie. It’s a computer—a weird ...

The world's first "biological computer" has officially hit the market, marking what may actually be a significant breakthrough in AI technology. Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 ...

A hot minute after the world started talking about GPU-powered neural networks, the conversation's quickly changed to neural networks powered by actual neurons. You can now order a literal ...

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle In a world first, Australian firm ...

Cortical Labs says its working on two biological data centers. Coming soon to a LAN party near you: a Petri dish. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with fresh content, deep dives, and ...

Alongside Cortical Labs, the research was conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge and UK-based biotech startup bit.bio. Brett Kagan, Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs, ...