“Inside a rectangular lab in a boxy office park in #Melbourne’s north (#Brunswick) is a black #server cabinet. Inside that cabinet are what appear to be boxy white #computers, except for an unusual front display reading out #temperature and #oxygen concentration.

Inside each of those boxes is yet another container – a small glass #PetriDish studded with #electrodes. And inside that dish is a delicate matrix of #human #BrainCells, pulsing with electricity.

These boxes are the #first commercially available #HumanComputer #hybrids. #Wetware, the sci-fi writers call this technology, computer hardware made of flesh and blood. The researchers behind the devices prefer “#BiologicalComputers” – or, eventually, “#SyntheticBiologicalIntelligence”.

#Melbourne / #CorticalLabs / #CL1 / #BrettKagan <https://www.theage.com.au/national/artificial-brain-real-human-brain-cells-the-weird-possible-future-of-computing-20250930-p5mz1d.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/zVJDu>

Biological computers use molecules or cells for computing. They're mainly for medical use and differ from traditional electronic computers in structure and speed.Biological computers use living things to perform computing functions and are mainly used for medical purposes. They differ from traditional electronic computers in structure, speed, and parallelism.

#biologicalcomputers #nanobiotechnology #lifecomputes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834422-100-the-unique-promise-of-biological-computers-made-from-living-things/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter