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Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more

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"By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment," said senior researcher Rob Shepherd, a materials scientist at Cornell, when the research was published in August.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Someone watched scavengers reign and said let's do it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's just randomly moving around.

It needs a "mouth" so it can be rewarded for moving towards food and then we can see if it can move the robot towards food

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you can turn a story this cool into "it's just randomly .." I don't know what ever would impress you

[–] wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk, humans could be food and that could cause problems...

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. But without something to reward it for specific movements, it's just random noise.

I guess you could give it some type of photosynthesis and a light that slowly moves, see if it follows. Then eventually give it complicated paths where it has to travel to a light and not just stay under it.

But the human nervous system is basically the same thing, if it can control a robot it could hypothetically control humans.