Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Run Wild

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Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
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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.

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.

I for one, welcome our new funghi overlords.

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.

Someone tell those scientists that Season 2 of Last of Us is coming soon.

I thought we already had this discussion. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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

I think as long as we don't give them thumbs we should be okay, right?