somewhere in london right now a robot dog is being trained to rip another one apart.
july 3rd. outernet london. @VICE streaming to 20M+
come see what we built.
🔥 WORLD'S FIRST BIOCOMPUTER, POWERED BY HUMAN BRAIN CELLS ON A SILICON CHIP
Cortical Labs released CL1, a bio-computer using 800,000 lab-grown human neurons interfaced on a silicon chip.
Each chip costs $35,000, with a cloud version at $300 per week.
sub-ms response, remote access via "wetware-as-a-service"
Outlearns RL agents in real-time tasks with adaptive cell behavior.
→ Live neurons are sustained for up to 6 months via onboard life-support hardware (nutrients, temperature, waste control). Each neuron batch is donor-derived, enabling use-case variation (e.g., disease modeling, genetic diversity).
→ Use cases include neuropsychiatric drug testing (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer’s), AI acceleration, and behavioral computation. In one study, epileptic cell cultures improved learning after applying antiepileptic drugs.
→ Unlike preclinical models with static behavior, CL1 lets researchers stimulate cells dynamically and measure functional restoration—bridging computation and biological response modeling.