Automated Cyborg Cockroach Production for Search and Rescue Missions
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have demonstrated that live insects can be remotely controlled. They equipped Madagascar hissing cockroaches with a “backpack” containing electrodes connected to the insects’ sensory organs. Using a microcontroller and wireless technology, researchers could send electrical impulses to guide the cockroaches in different directions, slow them down, or stop … Read more