Scientists have developed a lab-grown brain that can play video games.
The ‘biological computer’ has brain cells, which are grown in a dish and kept alive in a life-support system, which have learnt to play the 1990s classic Doom and the arcade game Pong.
Although it played the game badly, the aim of the experiment is to give scientists a new way to watch how brain cells work to learn about what causes conditions such as autism, ADHD and depression.
The machine is the work of Australian start-up Cortical Labs and is the first commercially available ‘biological computer’, costing about £26,000.
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