That sounds really interesting! Can you give me an example of a strange agent? (Or point me in the direction of some good writing on it? Maybe yours?)

Thanks Gunnar! In the talk, I compared 'biotic' (e.g. physarum, xenobots, anthrobots, and other biohybrid robots) and 'abiotic' examples (e.g. LLMs, cellular automata, and social robots). This recent article may also be relevant to you as a recent example: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sensorimotor control of robots mediated by electrophysiological measurements of fungal mycelia

Mycelia directed sensing and control in legged and wheeled biohybrid robots.