A cockroach with an digital backpack will be steered remotely
Courtesy of Hirotaka Sato, Nanyang Technological College
A robotic arm that may mechanically flip cockroaches into controllable cyborgs could possibly be used to create swarms of organic robots for search missions.
Hirotaka Sato at Nanyang Technological College in Singapore and his colleagues have beforehand proven that teams of as much as 20 Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) geared up with digital backpacks will be steered throughout desert-like terrain. Nonetheless, for use in a real-world search-and-rescue mission, the crew calculates that tons of or hundreds of cyborg bugs can be wanted.
