"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.
Scientists Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild
5 Comments
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 1y
Someone watched scavengers reign and said let's do it.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Idk, humans could be food and that could cause problems...
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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.