A cockroach with an digital backpack might be steered remotely
Courtesy of Hirotaka Sato, Nanyang Technological College
A robotic arm that may routinely flip cockroaches into controllable cyborgs might be used to create swarms of organic robots for search missions.
Hirotaka Sato at Nanyang Technological College in Singapore and his colleagues have beforehand proven that teams of as much as 20 Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) outfitted with digital backpacks might be steered throughout desert-like terrain. Nevertheless, for use in a real-world search-and-rescue mission, the workforce calculates that lots of or 1000’s of cyborg bugs can be wanted.
