“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

    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

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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.

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      If you can turn a story this cool into “it’s just randomly …” I don’t know what ever would impress you