Physarum Chip Project: Growing Computers from Slime Mould

Research in unconventional, or nature-inspired, computing aims to uncover
novel principles of efficient information processing and computation in physical,
chemical and biological systems, to develop novel non-standard algorithms
and computing architectures, and also to implement conventional
algorithms in non-silicon, or wet, substrates. This emerging field of science
and engineering is predominantly occupied by theoretical research, e.g. quantum
computation, membrane computing and dynamical systems computing.