Ingenieure gaben einem Pilz einen Roboterkörper und ließen ihn wild herumlaufen

Summary (because this is a weird one!):

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University in the US and the University of Florence in Italy took steps to find out, putting a culture of the edible mushroom species *Pleurotus eryngii* (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface.

Through a series of experiments, the researchers showed it was possible to use the mushroom’s electrophysiological activity as a means of translating environmental cues into directives, which could, in turn, be used to drive a mechanical device’s movements.

Read the peer-reviewed research here: [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019)

You surely can feed some random biological signals into a couple of motors, but this does not mean the mushroom will eventually learn to move. Maybe if you do this over a million generations, applying natural selection over those who move properly, something will come out of it, but otherwise you won’t get anything but random data. As this data comes from the mushroom, stimulating it with UV will have an effect – but you will still be getting different patterns of random data.