I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time a fungus used the body of something else to get to where it needs to go.
Mushrooms are just the fruiting body of the mycelium network. What we have here is someone cutting a dick off and having it pilot a Gundam.
It’s a meme pic, so I’m just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it’s the “mushroom” fruiting body that’s doing anything in this research. It’s almost certainly the mycelium or we’re dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don’t produce mushrooms at all.
Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.
Yeah the reality is they essentially used mycelium as nerve fibers, but I was riffing on the headline. There was also certainly no learning going on. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019
Mushroom Robot Army vs OpenAI Robot Army… whose side are you on?
Anyone got the DOI? I promise I won’t build a small swarm of wheeled mushrooms.
[edit]: Found it! https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019
Making the dystopia less boring one step at a time.
