Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

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A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...

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How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers have demonstrated that human brain cells can play DOOM, showcasing a major breakthrough in the advancements of wetware technology.

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.