Composing intelligence from living systems.
Open-source tools for biological neural networks. Harnessing the efficiency of living tissue for the next era of computation.
What we're building
Lobe Labs creates the software layer between biological neural networks and the developers who want to use them. We make biocomputing accessible.
Hardware Abstraction
A unified API that works across biocomputing platforms. Write once, run on any biological substrate — from FinalSpark to Cortical Labs to custom hardware.
Experiment Framework
Modular tools for designing, running, and analyzing experiments on neural organoids. Built-in safety monitoring, statistical validation, and reproducibility tracking.
Creative Applications
Proof-of-concept applications that demonstrate what biocomputing can do — starting with music. Melody imprinting, completion, and generation powered by living neural tissue.
Why biological computation?
The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts — the power of a dim light bulb — yet performs computations that the world's largest data centers struggle to match.
Neural organoids — small clusters of living neurons grown in a lab — offer a path toward computation that is orders of magnitude more energy-efficient than silicon. They learn, adapt, and self-organize in ways that artificial neural networks can only approximate.
We believe the next era of computing won't be built entirely from transistors. It will be grown.
Follow the journey
We're building in public. Follow our research, experiments, and open-source releases as we explore what biological neural networks can do.