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A mushroom controls a robot. Yep.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2606970.html

When AI, robotics and fungi all get together in the future, it's fair to say they/ it will truly be our new overlords.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 12:22 am
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You want an ork dreadnought? Because this is how you get ork dreadnoughts


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 1:27 am
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Isn't this the first step on the road to Daleks?


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 4:35 am
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I'm not reading anything into the choice of a "king trumpet" mushroom.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 4:49 am
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I reckon this is going to go bad for the vegetarians. Payback is deffo on the cards.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 6:12 am
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I reckon this is going to go bad for the vegetarians. Payback is deffo on the cards

That's a bit of a shittake.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 7:09 am
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Excellent pun. Have you got any morel?


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 7:33 am
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Can it do the truffle shuffle?


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 8:03 am
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That’s a bit of a shittake.

I bet you're a funghi at parties.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 8:06 am
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I bet it just presses a button.


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 8:38 am
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Doesn't seem that sophisticated to me. In fact its a bit agaric-cultural...


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 9:06 am
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Doesn’t seem that sophisticated to me. In fact its a bit agaric-cultural…

Certainly is compared to what fungi are already controlling:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/world/video/tarantula-zombie-fungus-infected-talat-digvid


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 9:09 am
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It get's weirder. The 'zombie fungus' can also be infected with a parasite fungus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11787


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 9:22 am
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Did no-one watch Last of Us?!


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 9:50 am
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The Waaaagh is forming


 
Posted : 05/09/2024 9:53 am

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