A fruit fly's pinhead-sized brain is not the place you'd expect find inspiration for new robotics. But in a bold move, researchers have built a speedy robot with a 'brain' based on the insect's ...

The robot’s biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the electrical ...

A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a “brain-on-a-chip,” and the researchers have been working to train the ...

According to a statement by the researchers, the brainy robot is the "world’s first open-source brain-on-chip intelligent complex information interaction system." ...

The robots achieved an average speed of 0.52 ± 0.22 mm/s, a fin-flapping frequency of up to 2.0 Hz, and a turning curvature of 0.11 ± 0.04 radians per millimeter.

This robot is alive. Incorporated into its electronics are living fungal tissues that change the robot's behavior when exposed to intense light. That and more of the best from @ScienceMagazine and ...

Called MetaBOC, the robot is capable of obstacle avoidance, tracking, and grasping, and expanded the architecture of the brain-on-a-chip from two dimensions to three.

Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to ...

Part of the issue is that robots don’t see the same way humans or other animals do. Picture the robot vacuum again, terrified of a “cliff” that is actually a stark shadow on the floor. Biological ...