🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-05
Cortical Labs is shipping a biological computer this summer, sparking interest in organoid intelligence!
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🤖 + 🧫 One story caught my eye this week was Cortical Labs announcing the shipping of their biological computer this summer.
Techmeme: A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, billed as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer (Shannon Cuthrell/IEEE Spectrum)
By Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum. View the full context on Techmeme.
For perspective, organoid computing and organoid intelligence running atop biological operating system… (BIOs — get it?) has been getting more coverage lately.
Back in 2009, even Intel was describing our biological computing future.
During the 1970s, if you watched the TV series, Tomorrow People, then you might remember their biotic computer, TIM.
Note: Some images via Unsplash
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