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@mander.xyzhttps://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/to-save-endangered-trees-researchers-in-south-america-recruit-an-army-of-fungi/
It’s a sunny July day during an otherwise exceptionally rainy season in the lush green mountains of Huila, in Colombia’s eastern Andes. Adriana Corrales, her assistant and a local guide climb through the dense cloud forest. Above them, birds sing and monkeys howl through the canopy of ancient Colombian black oaks (Trigonobalanus excelsa), an endangered […]
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2606970.html
Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say