Fungi Control Biohybrid Robots

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Watch this fungus control a robot

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“Biohybrid robots” that are part fungi and part computer convert fungal electrical signals into digital commands.

A starfish-like robot contracts its five legs to inch across a wood floor, not powered by batteries or plugged into an outlet.

A new study published in Science Robotics outlines how fungi might be a key piece of the biohybrid puzzle.

The new technology could be used in agriculture: fungi are extremely sensitive to their environment.

“The conditions to keep the mycelium alive seem to be easier to achieve in a robot than the systems we need to keep mouse muscle alive, for example,” says Webster-Wood .

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