Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild - eviltoast
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    11 days 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.

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    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.

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      11 days 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.

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