Scientists in Singapore create cyborg cockroach with a diving suit

unexplained-mysteries ^ | 07/02/2026 | TK Randall

[BenLurkin]

Cyborg cockroaches have actually been a thing for a while - with researchers attaching electrodes to the brain and sensory organs, enabling them to direct the insects like a remote-controlled car.

Now, though, scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have taken things one step further by creating a cybernetic diving suit that can enable a cockroach to breath underwater. A 3D-printed 'backpack' attached to the insect contains a chemical oxygen generator and pumps the breathable air through special tubes.

Experiments showed that the system provided enough of an oxygen supply for the insect to survive and swim around underwater for up to three hours.

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[KarlInOhio]

Meanwhile nature has shrimp, lobsters nd crayfish.

[Sirius Lee]

Do you want Roachdroids? Because that's how you get Roachdroids.

[ClearCase_guy]

Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay

create cyborg cockroach with a diving suit

[alexander_busek]

"Well, I for one would like to be the first to welcome our new Insect Overlords!"

Regards,

[I-ambush]

So, at the end of the world, it will be Keith Richards cursing as he skims aquatic cockroaches from his swimming pool.

[blueunicorn6]

“But, Mom, all the other kids got remote controlled diving cockroaches for their birthday!”

[mikey_hates_everything]

[Pontiac]

Nature and Nature's God did it to ants millions of years ago.

How a cordyceps fungus turns ants into ‘zombies’

[blueunicorn6]

For us Generation Jones…..

“This week on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, ATTACK OF THE DIVING COCKROACHES!”

“Chip! Load up the Flying Sub with DDT!”

[blueunicorn6]

From TOHO Studios……

Godzilla VS Remote Controlled Diving Cockroaches

“We must ask our friends, The Sea Monkeys, to join us in this battle!”

[blueunicorn6]

If I had a remote controlled, diving cockroach, the Women’s Synchronized Swimming events would never be the same.

[dennisw]

But can it be scaled for human size cockroaches.

[ViLaLuz]

Humans are on the list eventually I’m sure.

[butlerweave]

WHY ? LOL

[CtBigPat]

[Iron Munro]

JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD