Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild
Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild
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.
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.
26I thought we already had this discussion. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
11Who needs AI when you got FungI 🍄
11the 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.
10Hehehe bungus
Next we give fish a spider robot body
9I for one, welcome our new funghi overlords.
8Given 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.
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Someone tell those scientists that Season 2 of Last of Us is coming soon.
5Mushrooms are pretty loud talkers, tbh. Just gotta listen to the right ones. 😂
3I think as long as we don't give them thumbs we should be okay, right?
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