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Cyborg cockroaches can now be steered with UV goggles | Lights shone into a cockroach's individual eyes can steer it left or right thanks to an innate tendency to avoid UV light
I bet that headline wasn't on your bingo card this week. Researchers at the University of Osaka have equipped cyborg insects with teeny tiny helmets to steer them around various environments, without the need for invasive surgery or internal wiring.
Researchers at the University of Osaka have equipped cyborg insects with teeny tiny helmets to steer them around various environments, without the need for invasive surgery or internal wiring. Keisuke Morishima, who led the hybrid biology-meets-robotics study, noted that this approach to creating cyborg insects is a better way to go than traditional methods of controlling their behavior. This bio-hybrid system for creating controllable cyborg insects could find use in situations that are too difficult or dangerous to deploy conventional robots into, such as search and rescue missions after natural disasters, and sensitive environmental habitats that need monitoring.
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