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Airicist
14th November 2014, 12:48
Contributors:

NASA Ames Research Center (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?7980)

Ecovative Design LLC (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?8841)

Lynn Justine Rothschild (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?8844)

Airicist
14th November 2014, 12:52
Article "Bio-drone simply melts away when it crashes (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429952.400-biodrone-simply-melts-away-when-it-crashes.html)"

by Aviva Rutkin
November 12, 2014

Airicist
14th November 2014, 12:53
Article "Biological fungus drone melts into a puddle of goop if discovered (https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213375/biological-fungus-drone-can-melt-into-a-puddle-of-goop)"
Everything except the rotors and battery, anyway

by Rich McCormick
November 13, 2014

Airicist
14th November 2014, 13:03
Biodrones already have.
When will biorobots?

Airicist
28th December 2014, 18:07
https://youtu.be/2jNNzfanBSE

The fungus drone that grows and melts itself

Published on Dec 28, 2014


This Bio-Drone can grow itself from just a tiny amount of fungus or bacteria and will melt itself into a puddle of sugar when its done. It's made of materials like mycelium, a mushroom-like material, cellulose, silver circuitry. If it were to crash somewhere in the environment, it would be less environmentally impactful than a standard drone, but what else is it capable of? What would you use a bio-drone to do? Kim Horcher, Grant Imahara (Mythbusters, Star Trek Continues), and Jenna Busch (Legion of Leia) discuss!