Cyborg Cockroaches: Automated Assembly for Search and Rescue Missions
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have demonstrated that living insects can be remotely controlled. They equipped Madagascar hissing cockroaches with a “backpack” connected to the insects’ sensory organs through electrodes. Using wireless communication and a microcontroller, researchers were able to send electrical impulses that directed the cockroaches to move, slow down, or stop. … Read more