Worried about cyber-bugs taking over the planet? An inventor behind the headline-grabbing cyborg cockroaches unveiled earlier this month say the enhanced insects are there to do good. In a new ...

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Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An ...

In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a special machine to automatically turn cockroaches into cyborg roaches. This new machine can fit portable stimulation and ...

Cyborg cockroaches get new technology fitted on their bodies, and it focuses on an ultrathin solar cell that helps deliver power to control these bugs to help in different procedures. These superbugs ...

In an experiment out of The Terminator, scientists released a hoard of 20 cyborg cockroaches into a sandy artificial desert. Each live insect wore a tiny computer backpack that could control and steer ...

The “rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach” gets zapped on either side to turn left or right and wears a small solar panel. Reading time 3 minutes The next time you move to squish a ...

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Why design robots from scratch when nature has already done a lot of the hard work for us? That’s the reasoning behind cyborg insects, and now scientists have found a way to make remote-controlled ...

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Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A "robofly" that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space. These aren't just buzzy ideas, they're becoming reality.