Robots digest — Oct 31, 2026
Top line: A quiet day. The one item of substance is ScienceAlert's report that scientists have built a robot dog controlled by living human brain cells, part of Cortical Labs' work on chips built from living neurons — single-outlet reporting so far, with no independent coverage yet.
Brief
- ScienceAlert reports that scientists have built a robot dog powered by human brain cells, framed around Cortical Labs' work on using living neurons as the foundation of computer chips — "the robot dog in action" imagery is credited to Cortical Labs. The report rests on the company's own demonstration: no peer-reviewed detail, independent testing, or named customers in the reporting yet, and no published specs on how much the living-neuron system actually controls the machine's behaviour.