{"id":232366,"date":"2026-03-02T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/these-biological-computers-actually-use-neurons"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:04:23","slug":"these-biological-computers-actually-use-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/these-biological-computers-actually-use-neurons","title":{"rendered":"These biological computers actually use neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Sd3JlLJn9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video we look into one of the developing areas of computing: wetware. Most specifically neuromorphic computing, a science which uses actual neurons on chips.<\/p>\n<p>We talk to Cortical labs, the company that developed the pong-playing dish brain, and professor Thomas Hartung to understand what the benefits of this technology are.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Discover deep-dive engineering stories and breakthrough technologies on Interesting Engineering:<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/interestingengineeringie\">@interestingengineeringie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude96 Explore military innovation and defense technology on Military Mechanics:<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/militarymechanicsie\">@militarymechanicsie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to IE Brief for daily updates on the discoveries, technologies, and global developments shaping our world:<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ienews\">@ienews<\/a>-brief.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd2c Complex tech, simply explained. Discover how the world works with IE Explains: \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ie\">@ie<\/a>-explains<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/these-biological-computers-actually-use-neurons\">Continue reading \u201cThese biological computers actually use neurons\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video we look into one of the developing areas of computing: wetware. Most specifically neuromorphic computing, a science which uses actual neurons on chips. We talk to Cortical labs, the company that developed the pong-playing dish brain, and professor Thomas Hartung to understand what the benefits of this technology are. \ud83d\ude80 Discover deep-dive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,38,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-engineering","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232366","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}