Human neurons on silicon chips: 10 News goes inside Australia's 'biological computer'
The 10 News + report on lab-grown brain cells wired to hardware sent its comment section straight to Skynet, the Matrix and Mary Shelley.
10 NewsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 203,020 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (4,867).
Scientists Are Creating The World’s First Biological Computer In Australia | 10 News +
What does a computer built partly from human brain cells look like? A new 10 News + report takes viewers inside an Australian lab where scientists grow neurons from human cells and set them to work alongside silicon chips. The description bills it as the world's first biological computer, and passes on the nickname the researchers give it: AI, as in actual intelligence.
The channel lives mostly on bulletin clips, and a new upload usually starts its first day with a few thousand views. This one passed 186,000 in about twenty hours. It was a busy day elsewhere too: footage of the clean-up after a severe spring storm in New South Wales also ran far ahead of the usual pace, but nowhere near the lab.
The description does not name the lab, but the idea has a well-known Australian history. In 2022, the Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs reported that a dish of living neurons it called DishBrain had learned to play the arcade game Pong, a result that made headlines around the world.
Underneath, viewers have reached for nearly every story science fiction ever told about thinking machines. Skynet, the Matrix, Frankenstein, Doctor Who's Cybermen and the robobrains of Fallout all turn up, often as jokes. The most liked comment asks why anyone would start by teaching the cells games about shooting at targets, and a smaller but lively thread wants to know who is paying for the research.
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What viewers say
We got skynet, but the guy are straight building the Matrix
@tempppppussserrSee it on YouTubeShelley would have loved this Frankenstein.
@jpan7071See it on YouTubeDo you want Cybermen? Because this is how you get Cybermen.
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- Channel
- 10 News
- Subscribers
- 1,150,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,303,125
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,290,147 (on a normal day: 524,207)
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 186,660 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 203,020
The numbers
A news report on lab-grown neurons, and a first day far beyond anything this channel's bulletin clips usually see.
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The Cybermen, mentioned by one viewer under the report, are villains from which TV series?
The Cybermen first appeared in Doctor Who in 1966 and have been among the show's best-known enemies ever since.
