This would be neat to see applied to Vine Robots: https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153 https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153 --- They talk about the use of the pne

This would be neat to see applied to Vine Robots: https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153 https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153 --- They talk about the use of the pneumatic vine robots to nav rubble and caves etc - but if the vine robot could evaluate the terrain and use apropriate routing algo based on the nature of the terrain it was doing. they arent using vision necessarily in the vine robots - but if they could use terrain sensors that informed the best routing algo to use/accomplish goal that would be neat. Another interesting thing about this would be to apply it to where vine-style micro-trenchers could know the patter of the lattice that will best be needed to accomplish whatever the stated newton bracing requirement were - then you could plop relative light foot pads onto a celestial body - then have these vine into the surface in such a way where you can begin to attach larger objects and very easily build foundations to large space structures - plus, as it maps out - you have an exact map of what your mycelium -like base foundation look like. EDIT: And you could grow the foundation as need - however, imagine a series of tubes mabe by these vinind robotw - that are later filled in (the robots) with structural hardening material -- you vine your robots into the mountian in sequences - first do a large outer lattice - and strucurally brace it with whatever material - then in the center space - vine into the core and fill those with explosives and tunnel. -- then you can snake through your exploded rubble - see whatst up - and deliver cables and hoses through the vine to a forward location... A vine robot that tunnels - but its outer layer is a permiable filter and it has capillary features - but basically it unfulrs into being a well and the outer material is expanded do to corrugations in the design allowing debris filteres water to create a layer around the new pipe - and then capillaried up - or a pump in the core at the head of the water-wyrm. (I need to figure out how to make some of these -- I love them.)