Scientists Grew a Mushroom Into This Robot to Act as Its Brain

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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.""By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment.

As organic robotics researcher Anand Mishra noted in the release, contamination is always a big concern when sticking electrodes into fungus. To head that off, Cornell plant pathology associate professor Kathie Hodge taught the roboticist how to grow clean mycelia cultures so they could most effectively send the electrical signals stoked by Mishra's bespoke interface.

As a video from the experiment shows, the robots ended up moving like strange little spiders or landbound jellyfish.

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