“By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment,” said senior researcher Rob Shepherd, a materials scientist at Cornell, when the research was published in August.
Someone watched scavengers reign and said let’s do it.
It’s just randomly moving around.
It needs a “mouth” so it can be rewarded for moving towards food and then we can see if it can move the robot towards food
If you can turn a story this cool into “it’s just randomly …” I don’t know what ever would impress you
Idk, humans could be food and that could cause problems…
Yeah. But without something to reward it for specific movements, it’s just random noise.
I guess you could give it some type of photosynthesis and a light that slowly moves, see if it follows. Then eventually give it complicated paths where it has to travel to a light and not just stay under it.
But the human nervous system is basically the same thing, if it can control a robot it could hypothetically control humans.
