{"id":195984,"date":"2024-09-10T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/biohybrid-robots-controlled-by-electrical-impulses-in-mushrooms"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:29:22","slug":"biohybrid-robots-controlled-by-electrical-impulses-in-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/biohybrid-robots-controlled-by-electrical-impulses-in-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses \u2014 in mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biohybrid-robots-controlled-by-electrical-impulses-in-mushrooms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials \u2013 and sometimes, a little fungus.<\/p>\n<p>In creating a pair of new robots, Cornell researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found not in the lab but on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia\u2019s innate electrical signals, the researchers discovered a new way of controlling \u201cbiohybrid\u201d robots that can potentially react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adk8019\">Sensorimotor Control of Robots Mediated by Electrophysiological Measurements of Fungal Mycelia<\/a>,\u201d published Aug. 28 in Science Robotics. The lead author is Anand Mishra, a research associate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/orl.mae.cornell.edu\/\">Organic Robotics Lab<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mae.cornell.edu\/faculty-directory\/robert-f-shepherd\">Rob Shepherd<\/a>, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in Cornell Engineering, and the paper\u2019s senior author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a robot takes time, technical skill, the right materials \u2013 and sometimes, a little fungus. In creating a pair of new robots, Cornell researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found not in the lab but on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia\u2019s innate electrical signals, the researchers discovered a new way of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}