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Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report August 23 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The researchers ...

In a study published22 August in Cell Reports Physical Science, a team led by Dr. Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel—a type of soft, flexible material—can learn to play the simple ...

In 2022, a team of researchers in Melbourne placed a cluster of lab-grown human neurons onto a chip and watched them learn to play Pong. The cells had never been part of a brain. They had been ...

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report. The researchers hooked hydrogels up to a virtual game environment and then ...