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.