Physarum Chip: Developments in growing computers from slime mould
Abstract
The Phychip project is a collaborative European research initiative to design and implement computation using the organism Physarum polycephalum; it is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by the European Commission within CORDIS and the FET Proactive scheme. Included in this presentation are details the development of a Physarum based biosensor and biological logic gate, offering significant advancements in the respective fields. The work demonstrates the first steps towards Physarum computation and practical Physarum Biosensor; subsequent work will focus on development of a hybrid electronic-Physarum device capable of implementing computation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.6831,
title = {Physarum Chip: Developments in growing computers from slime mould},
author = {James G. H. Whiting and Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello and Andrew Adamatzky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6831},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Conference abstract presented at the Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation 2014. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, July 14-18. 2 pages