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Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild

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 Storksforlegs   ( @storksforlegs@beehaw.org )  ScienceEnglish • 4 months ago
 
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Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild

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 Storksforlegs   ( @storksforlegs@beehaw.org )  ScienceEnglish • 4 months ago
 

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Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
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Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.
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  •  Emotet   ( @Emotet@slrpnk.net ) 
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    26•4 months ago

    Instead of waiting for a zombie fungus to evolve into something that can infect humans, they decided to cut out the middleman and made cyborg mushrooms.

  •  Deemo   ( @Deemo@bookwormstory.social ) 
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    11•4 months ago

    Who needs AI when you got FungI 🍄

  •  dotslashme   ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) 
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    11•4 months ago

    I thought we already had this discussion. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

  •  superkret   ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 
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    10•4 months ago

    the Fungi kingdom is something of an untapped goldmine for cybernetic technology.

    Imagine hearing this sentence coming from a TV screen at the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie.

  •  Annoyed_🦀   ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 
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    9•4 months ago

    Hehehe bungus

    Next we give fish a spider robot body

  •  Baggins   ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) 
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    8•4 months ago

    I for one, welcome our new funghi overlords.

    •  HumanPenguin   ( @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ) 
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      1•4 months ago

      Given all it wants to do is life up and down.

      If we make tbe huge assumption it has any idea what is happening.

      Your wife is likely its actual intent.

  •  Chahk   ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 
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    5•4 months ago

    Someone tell those scientists that Season 2 of Last of Us is coming soon.

  •  millie   ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 
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    3•4 months ago

    Mushrooms are pretty loud talkers, tbh. Just gotta listen to the right ones. 😂

  •  averyminya   ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 
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    2•4 months ago

    I think as long as we don’t give them thumbs we should be okay, right?

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