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Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds


A team of researchers in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has unveiled a novel manufacturing process that can mass-produce cyborg insects by automatically implanting electronic backpacks onto live...

A team of researchers in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has unveiled a novel manufacturing process that can mass-produce cyborg insects by automatically implanting electronic backpacks onto live bugs. From there, a robot equipped with computer vision and deep learning scans each bug to identify optimal implantation points based on its particular size and body structure. In outdoor trials, a squad of four cyborg roaches equipped with location trackers managed to collectively map 80% of a cluttered 4-square-meter area within 10 minutes – all while being remotely driven by their electronic backpacks.

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