Engineers building robots have long taken their cues from the animal kingdom, but a team from Cornell University is turning to a different taxonomic kingdom: fungi. The researchers allowed mushrooms ...

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Autonomous vehicles are said to be safer than human drivers – but would you trust a mushroom behind the wheel? A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a ...

(CNN) — A wheeled bot rolls across the floor. A soft-bodied robotic star bends its five legs, moving with an awkward shuffle. Powered by conventional electricity via plug or battery, these simple ...

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