Researchers converted a cockroach into a robot that could be someday deployed in disaster areas too dangerous for human search and rescue personnel to enter. The scientists, primarily from the Riken ...

SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) - 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 ...

[ローリー（米ノースカロライナ州）26日 ロイター] 米ノースカロライナ州立大学のアルパー・ボズカート准教授は、現在「サイボーグ・ゴキブリ」の開発に打ち込んでいる。 ゴキブリの触覚に電極をつなげ、リモコンのボタンを押せば電気パルスを ...

Robots are expected to be active in places where rescue and search by humans are difficult, such as disaster sites and extreme environments, but there are various challenges to equip small robots with ...

Singapore dispatched 10 "cyborg cockroaches" to Myanmar to support search and rescue operations following the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people on the 28th of last month. On ...

Jeez. A couple of posters here have more sympathy for cockroaches than they do for human beings who might be helped by this. Remarkable. I gave you an up-vote for that comment. The article says these ...

Cyborg cockroaches guided by ultraviolet light and motion feedback navigate obstacles autonomously, showing how noninvasive control can coordinate biological movement with electronic sensing.

Forward-looking: In a Berlin laboratory, a team at SWARM Biotactics is turning insects into living robots. The German startup is developing microelectronic backpacks that can transform Madagascar ...