“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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      11 days 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.