This paper is the first of many that will use the fungal kingdom to provide environmental sensing and command signals to robots to improve their levels of autonomy.
By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment.
In this case we used light as the input, but in the future it will be chemical. The potential for future robots could be to sense soil chemistry in row crops.
Mycelia are the underground vegetative part of mushrooms. They have the ability to sense chemical and biological signals and respond to multiple inputs.
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