In unholy nightmare creation news, scientists created a living skin out of fungi.

In unholy nightmare creation news, scientists created a living skin out of fungi and yes, they knew exactly what they were doing. This same group also made robots piloted by fungus and they learned to use their bodies. We'll talk about it. This group found that if they gave fungus control of a robot body and gave it sensory input, it would indeed start using it. Fungi do not like light. What you're watching is them essentially just making the fungus really uncomfortable and it gives it the ability to start moving. In this experiment, they did the same thing except they gave it some wheels. Fungi function very much like a neuron and this is why we can interface them with electronics. The idea of fungi having neuroplasticity though is pretty interesting, that they can indeed learn to operate a body that they never should have had. Although the training of robots via torture does feel a little wrong. A different paper, they created a living skin with sensation that they used to put on a robot. And yes, they knew exactly what they were doing because scientists have a sense of humor too. This is a nightmare machine. Yes, fungi may behave pretty similarly to human neurons and this is just a trial, just to demonstrate it's possible. These kinds of robots fill gaps that we have in our AI. AI can only mimic and it ends up declining over time. These kinds of robots can learn and come up with new ideas. They were never taught to walk, they figured it out.