The team demonstrated the mushrooms could control the robots by having them move toward or away from a UV light source. Still, this means that the mushroom-powered control units, with all their ...

"To enable vision-language models to control a robot, they must be trained to output ... such as specific numbers or icons, despite those cues not being present in the robot data.

“Biohybrid robots” that are part fungi and part computer convert fungal electrical signals into digital commands, a promising advance in building more sustainable robots. Mycellium from this ...

A soft-bodied robotic star bends its five legs ... in the biological world that we can harness, understand, and control to help our artificial systems work better,” added Shepherd, a professor ...

A team of biologists and robotic engineers in Germany has created a robot control system inspired by how zebrafish swim in groups. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and ...