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Scientists Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild (www.sciencealert.com)

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"By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment," said senior researcher Rob Shepherd, a materials scientist at Cornell, when the research was published in August.

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