Human Brain Tissue Controls Robot | News of the Day

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana in this breaking News of the Day episode of Stars, Cells, and God. Fuz reports on the work by a research team from Tianjin University in China, who, recently stole headlines when they announced that they developed a chip that used human brain tissue to control a robotics system. This remarkable breakthrough (called organoid intelligence) generates excitement and also raises some profound ethical and theological questions.

In this episode Fuz explains:

• How this technology works
• Why researchers are pursuing the development of biocomputing and organoid intelligence
• Ethical concerns associated with this work
• Christian perspective on organoid intelligence

Links and Resources:

• Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Used to Control Robot
• Organoid Intelligence (OI): The New Frontier in Biocomputing and Intelligence-in-a Dish
• A Christian Perspective on Living Electrodes
• Brain Organoids Cultivate the Case for Human Exceptionalism