Researchers achieved notable success by integrating fungal mycelia into robotics, enabling response to environmental stimuli and advancing hybrid systems for agricultural sensing.
The unique potential of mycelia allows robots to adaptively respond to various environmental conditions, which traditional passive sensors cannot adequately achieve.
'If you think about a synthetic system - let's say, any passive sensor - we just use it for one purpose...living systems respond to touch, they respond to light...'
The shroom-bots successfully completed three experiments, which validated the concept of using fungal mycelia to drive robotic movements based on environmental signals.
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