Posted on 09/21/2022 3:40:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.
That's a potential application of a recent breakthrough by Japanese researchers who demonstrated the ability to mount "backpacks" of solar cells and electronics on the bugs and control their motion by remote control.
Kenjiro Fukuda and his team at the Thin-Film Device Laboratory at Japanese research giant Riken developed a flexible solar cell film that's 4 microns thick, about 1/25 the width of a human hair, and can fit on the insect's abdomen.
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We’re sending somebody in to negotiate!!
The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtEpqlrwX5c
Why am I thiking of Dave Barry and his parachuting napalm buffalo joke?
Let’s see...I’m trapped under tons of rubble, but still alive. The first thing I see is a GIANT COCKROACH eying me up.
Yep. That’ll be comforting...before I have a massive stroke!
What’s the Back-up Robot? An evil CLOWN?
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