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Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild (www.sciencealert.com)
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers put a culture of the edible mushroom species Pleurotus eryngii (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface.

By applying algorithms based on the extracellular electrophysiology of P. eryngii mycelia and feeding the output into a microcontroller unit, the researchers used spikes of activity triggered by a stimulus – in this case, UV light – to toggle mechanical responses in two different kinds of mobile device.

https://youtu.be/5ZkkaM54RH8

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't attune myself to feel kinship with any living beings unless they're showing it in ways that I perceive as communication, so I force them into expressing in those ways.

Just straight up mad scientist shit.