Automated Assembly of Cyborg Cockroaches for Search and Rescue Missions
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have shown that living insects can be controlled remotely. They equipped Madagascar hissing cockroaches with a “backpack” that connects two electrodes to the insects’ sensory organs. Using radio signals and a microcontroller, they could send electrical impulses to the cockroaches, making them move in different directions, slow down, … Read more