Researchers are pairing human organoids both with other species and with robotics. “Interspecies chimeric organoids”, for example, are being investigated for their potential to grow mature human organs for transplantation by aggregating pig liver organoids with human progenitor cells.20 Interspecies organoids (from mice) are used to accelerate development of human cells in embryoids. Whole organs have been derived with mouse-rat interspecies systems.
Brain organoids have also been paired with silicon technology, driving a robot to investigate how innate learning networks form.21 Such machine-organoid connections could yield novel computational learning approaches for hybrid wetware/hardware AI.22 A model of human cortical development could underpin novel computational learning approaches.23 There is also some hope that hybrid organoids will assist in understanding extinction processes and facilitating de-extinction efforts.24
