Biocomputing milestones
A selective history of living-neural computing, focused on experiments and platforms that changed what researchers could actually do.
TBC opens a public neuron-derived AI demo
The Biological Computing Co. releases its Neural Optimizer proof of concept for interactive video generation; metrics are company-reported.
3D-MIND moves neural interfaces into three dimensions
Nature Electronics publishes a flexible 3D electrode array integrated with a cultured neural network for months of recording and stimulation.
Learning in cultured cortical networks
Shahaf and Marom reported adaptive changes in dissociated cortical networks under patterned stimulation, part of the experimental lineage that later fed into embodied neural computing.
DishBrain
Cultured cortical neurons were embedded in a closed-loop Pong environment in a peer-reviewed Neuron paper.
Organoid intelligence becomes a named research programme
Smirnova and colleagues laid out a multidisciplinary programme for using three-dimensional brain organoids in biocomputing.
Brainoware
A brain organoid served as the nonlinear reservoir in speech-recognition and nonlinear-prediction tasks.
Remote Neuroplatform published
FinalSpark described software-accessible, long-running organoid experiments available to outside research groups.
CL1 enters the commercial picture
Cortical Labs introduced a defined neuron-on-silicon biological-computing product and later expanded remote access through Cortical Cloud.
Tactile encoding reaches organoid experiments
A preprint reported Braille classification from electrically stimulated human forebrain organoids.
Goal-directed learning in cortical organoids
A Cell Reports paper reported task improvement in a closed-loop cart-pole setup and loss of that improvement when key glutamatergic receptors were blocked.
The Biological Computing Company raises $25m
A new commercial route emerges: using living neural networks to optimise and derive AI architectures rather than selling wetware hardware directly.