Biological drone, NASA Ames Research Center and Ecovative Design LLC

[Airicist]

Contributors:

NASA Ames Research Center

Ecovative Design LLC

Lynn Justine Rothschild

[Airicist]

Article "Bio-drone simply melts away when it crashes"

by Aviva Rutkin
November 12, 2014

[Airicist]

Article "Biological fungus drone melts into a puddle of goop if discovered"
Everything except the rotors and battery, anyway

by Rich McCormick
November 13, 2014

[Airicist]

Biodrones already have.
When will biorobots?

[Airicist]

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!