'Plasmobot': Scientists To Design First Robot Using Mould
Found on Science Daily on Sunday, 30 August 2009
"Most people's idea of a computer is a piece of hardware with software designed to carry out specific tasks. This mould, or plasmodium, is a naturally occurring substance with its own embedded intelligence. It propagates and searches for sources of nutrients and when it finds such sources it branches out in a series of veins of protoplasm."
"This new plasmodium robot, called plasmobot, will sense objects, span them in the shortest and best way possible, and transport tiny objects along pre-programmed directions. The robots will have parallel inputs and outputs, a network of sensors and the number crunching power of super computers."
That's something pretty common in geek households where leftover nutrients are spread all over the appartment. However, so far this version isn't sentinent; but the grey goo is coming.