Posted on 03/31/2016 6:06:36 PM PDT by Rockitz
Cyborg beetles could become an alternative to drones, as scientists have revealed they can remotely control insects with cybernetic implants.
Engineers at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are now testing the use of real insects which they can control remotely.
“Unlike man-made legged robots for which lots of tiny parts, sensors and actuators are manufactured, assembled and integrated, the insect–computer hybrid robots directly use living insects as nature’s ready-made robot platforms,” the researchers wrote in the journal Royal Society Inferface.
The beetles are fitted with electrodes in specific parts of their legs, optic lobes, and flight muscles which can be stimulated by a radio signal to force the insect to follow particular directions.
“By sending a signal to the beetle, we are able to simply change its direction of movement and the beetle will manage the rest,” said the head of the project, Assistant Professor Hirotaka Sato of the NTU School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “This technology could prove to be an improved alternative to remote-controlled drones as it could go into areas which are not accessible before. For example, it could be used in search-and-rescue missions as it could go into small nooks and crevices in a collapsed building to locate injured survivors.”
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Put that technology on lions, tigers and bears
Oh my...
And perhaps those “sharks with laserbeams” aren’t so fetched...
Remote-Controlled Birds Could Eat Remote-Controlled Insects
*far fetched
Cruz and Kasich supporters will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Welcome to ..... The Trump.
'Spying, sir.'
Why does this remind me of the radio controlled cockroach scene from “The Fifth Element”?
These have been around for years ...when it finally makes the news , it means it’s been around for at least 10 years prior ...
One of my favorite comedy sci-fi movies of all time.
"Does anyone else want to negotiate?"
Yep.
Here’s one reference from 2007 where DARPA is talking about it so probably well before 2007.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1167200
Thanks for posting that , very interesting ..
Econuts will go crazy at this. Plus everything that eats these could be in danger.
I’m guessing our intelligence people have had this stuff for decades...
Citizens don’t get first pick...
How bout giant skitters to drain the blood out of the enemy. Figure out how the drones can use blood for fuel.
Whoops, Mother Nature already has the patent on that idea.
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