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BY MARÍA JOSÉ GUTIERREZ CHAVEZ, EDITORIAL FELLOW
Mar 7, 2026
In 2022 Cortical Labs, the team that taught a petri dish full of 800,000 brain cells connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now years later, the team is leveling up as they claim their CL1 system is the “world’s first code deployable biological computer,” and is able to play Doom.
“Pong was much simpler. There was a direct relationship: The ball went up, the paddle went up. It was a direct input output relationship,” the research team explained in a YouTube video. “Doom was much more complex.
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