{"id":246235,"date":"2026-10-30T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-have-built-a-robot-dog-powered-by-human-brain-cells"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:58","slug":"scientists-have-built-a-robot-dog-powered-by-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-have-built-a-robot-dog-powered-by-human-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Built a Robot Dog Powered by Human Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using living neurons as the foundation of computer chips promises to bring significant advantages over conventional systems in terms of both energy efficiency and adaptability: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/1000-ai-agents-started-agreeing-without-anyone-telling-them-to\">As sophisticated as AI is<\/a>, the human brain needs a lot less power to run and is still much better at dealing with the unfamiliar.<\/p>\n<p>The latest demonstration of this biological technology comes from scientists at Cortical Labs in Australia, who have fitted out a robotic dog with neurons grown in the lab that are able to direct it towards a target on a simple map.<\/p>\n<p>By growing the neurons right on the chip, and fitting it with electrodes that provide two-way electrical signaling, the Cortical Labs team was able to translate activity in the small group of neurons into movement for the attached robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using living neurons as the foundation of computer chips promises to bring significant advantages over conventional systems in terms of both energy efficiency and adaptability: As sophisticated as AI is, the human brain needs a lot less power to run and is still much better at dealing with the unfamiliar. The latest demonstration of this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246235","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}