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  • U.S. military plans to make insect cyborgs

    03/14/2006 9:57:34 PM PST · by jmc1969 · 15 replies · 569+ views
    UPI ^ | March 13 2006 | Shaun Waterman
    Facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop 'insect cyborgs' that can go where its soldiers cannot. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers. As an insect metamorphoses from a larva to an adult, the solicitation notice says, its 'body goes through a renewal process that can heal wounds and reposition internal organs around foreign objects, including...