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Robotic devices can implant electrodes into cockroaches and link them to an electronic knapsack, making it practical to mass-produce biorobots for search objectives
By Alex Wilkins
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A cockroach with an electronic knapsack can be guided from another location
Thanks To Hirotaka Sato, Nanyang Technological University
A robotic arm that can instantly turn cockroaches into manageable cyborgs might be utilized to develop swarms of biological robotics for search objectives.
Hirotaka Sato at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and his associates have actually formerly revealed that groups of as much as 20 Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosageared up with electronic knapsacks can be guided throughout desert-like surface. To be utilized in a real-world search-and-rescue objective, the group determines that hundreds or thousands of cyborg bugs would be required.
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