{"id":160784,"date":"2023-03-22T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/were-one-step-closer-to-a-meaty-cyberpunk-future-as-scientists-create-a-living-computer-using-80000-mouse-brain-cells"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T19:25:13","slug":"were-one-step-closer-to-a-meaty-cyberpunk-future-as-scientists-create-a-living-computer-using-80000-mouse-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/were-one-step-closer-to-a-meaty-cyberpunk-future-as-scientists-create-a-living-computer-using-80000-mouse-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re one step closer to a meaty cyberpunk future as scientists create a \u2018living computer\u2019 using 80,000 mouse brain cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-one-step-closer-to-a-meaty-cyberpunk-future-as-scientists-create-a-living-computer-using-80000-mouse-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in the US managed to put together a <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=92X590208&xcust=pcg_us_4135915750269018600&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2F2363095-80000-mouse-brain-cells-used-to-build-a-living-computer%2F&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgamer.com%2Fwere-one-step-closer-to-a-meaty-cyberpunk-future-as-scientists-create-a-living-computer-using-80000-mouse-brain-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">living computer by cultivating over 80,000 mouse stem cells<\/a> (opens in new tab) (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com\/0\/680\/946.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT Home)<\/a> (opens in new tab). One day, the hope is to have a robot that uses living muscle tissue to sense and process information about its environment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Illinois have used tens of thousands of living mouse brain cells to build a computer that can recognize patterns of light and electricity. The team presented their findings at the American Institute of Physics in the form of a computer about the size of your palm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in the US managed to put together a living computer by cultivating over 80,000 mouse stem cells (opens in new tab) (via IT Home) (opens in new tab). One day, the hope is to have a robot that uses living muscle tissue to sense and process information about its environment. Researchers at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}