Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (www.independent.co.uk)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 02:13
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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com on 08 Sep 03:35 next collapse

Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this

AJ1@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 04:40 collapse

my favourite part is that when the fungi was given robotic legs, all it tried to do is get the fuck away from humans

VeganicTankie@lemmygrad.ml on 08 Sep 03:51 next collapse

Long live the Mushroom Queen of the universe

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 04:11 next collapse

When given a robot voice, all it learned how to do was scream endlessly.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 08 Sep 07:09 next collapse

I don’t remember this one, but it gives me strong “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” vibes. Am I right?

Blizzard@lemmy.zip on 08 Sep 07:40 collapse

Like that sun on one of the planets in Rick & Morty.

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 18:21 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://c.tenor.com/467yQVKdEQ0AAAAd/tenor.gif">

BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip on 08 Sep 04:12 next collapse

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg mushroom overlords.

Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 04:41 next collapse

<img alt="1000016856" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/04bde71e-6095-4cd5-9287-8c48b7c08cf8.jpeg">Soon…

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 08 Sep 07:11 next collapse

Employees are getting so expensive, they’re replaced with robot mushrooms? Didn’t see that on my 2024 bingo card.

But it will happen, or at least be attempted if the technology gets there. You just wait for it.

delirious_owl@discuss.online on 08 Sep 23:40 collapse

You’re supposed to eat the rich, not the workers

padlock4995@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 07:52 next collapse

Ah… No more mushrooms for vegetarians or vegans then? Mushrooms are sentient now

BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.ml on 13 Sep 02:27 collapse

They are designing the chip of the robot to adjust movement based on information they can gather from the mushroom when it responds to stimuli, not the other way around. The mushroom is not in control of the robot.

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 08:54 next collapse

Cybermyconids rise

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 11:27 collapse

I, for one, welcome our cyberfungal overlords!

OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 05:05 next collapse

At this point they really couldn’t do worse than us

CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 06:34 collapse

<img alt="WAAAAGH" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d187a2e4-5242-42a6-b186-0e02048a8f82.png">

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 08 Sep 10:38 next collapse

this has been posted 3 days ago on various other magazines

BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 15:36 next collapse

Same, tbh

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 18:22 collapse

As far as I can tell? No, but I just did a search of the onimbus for some keywords. The mental image feels very Adamsish though, doesn’t it? I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from somewhere. Props to you if you can find the source. Maybe it’s a Pratchettian quote? Or Giamanic?