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Researchers at Cornell University used fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots.
Mycelia can sense light and chemical reactions and communicate through electrical signals.
This makes it a novel component in hybrid robotics that could someday detect crop conditions otherwise invisible to humans.
Researchers believe this could lead to future robots that sense soil chemistry in crops.
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