A mushroom controls a robot. Yep.

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.

You want an ork dreadnought? Because this is how you get ork dreadnoughts

Isn’t this the first step on the road to Daleks?

I’m not reading anything into the choice of a “king trumpet” mushroom.

I reckon this is going to go bad for the vegetarians. Payback is deffo on the cards.

I reckon this is going to go bad for the vegetarians. Payback is deffo on the cards

That’s a bit of a shittake.

Excellent pun. Have you got any morel?

Can it do the truffle shuffle?

That’s a bit of a shittake.

I bet you’re a funghi at parties.

I bet it just presses a button.

Doesn’t seem that sophisticated to me. In fact its a bit agaric-cultural…

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

It get’s weirder. The ‘zombie fungus’ can also be infected with a parasite fungus.

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

Did no-one watch Last of Us?!

The Waaaagh is forming