does it have to look like something out of HR Gigers mind or was that just done out of passion

"It is also about creating a true connection with the living system. Because once you hear the signal, you also understand what's going on. Maybe that signal is coming from some kind of stresses. So you're seeing the physical response, because those signals we can't visualize, but the robot is making a visualization."

oh, passion then. Unsatisfied with just being able to measure stress responses of mushrooms we gave it the ability to move, solely to display stress responses.