A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'
Of course it was inspired by "The Terminator."A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus, directly inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."
"There’s this scene in 'The Terminator' in which they implant the skin on the robot," Antoni Gandia at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, co-author of a recent"The skin is external to him, yet it reports data to the robot and auto-repairs," he added. "We wanted to show that we can already do things like that.
In their paper, the researchers call it a "living, self-regenerating, and reactive Ganoderma sessile mycelium" that turned a "model cyborg figurine" into a "bio-cybernetic entity."
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