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

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

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

Using the age-old medium of Doom, boffins just gave us a look into our cyborg future by making the game run on wetware ...

Originally meant for your phone, but possible to port to PC with some fiddling, this game is a multi-hours long adventure, where you play not as the Doom Marine, but one of three main characters with ...

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