Photonic chips process and transmit information using light instead of electricity, guiding photons through microscopic structures on a chip.

Bees navigate their surroundings with astonishing precision. Their brains are now inspiring the design of tiny, low-power chips that could one day guide miniature robots and sensors.

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology Hodak calls the biohybrid model, the chip would be seeded with stem cells ...