With apologies to Philip K. Dick, Cornell researchers have developed a novel way to control their ‘biohybrid’ robots by utilizing mycelia’s natural electrical signals.

Rob Shepherd, head of Cornell’s Organic Robotics Lab says, ‘By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment.’

Choose your hallucination, ‘Blade Runner’ or ‘The Matrix’.

Source: Science Daily and Cornell University, September 2024. Graphic: Shrooms and Robodogs. DALL E 3