Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An ...

Typically, engineers perform surgery to implant electrodes into the insects’ antennae. The antennae contain sensors for smell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a special machine to automatically turn cockroaches ...

*(CNN) — The patient is submerged in an ice bath as an anesthetic for the impending surgery. When sufficient numbness is achieved, University of Queensland student Lachlan Fitzgerald begins the ...

Instead of using robots, researchers at Osaka University and Diponegoro University, Indonesia aim to harness the advantages of cyborg insects to aid in disaster relief and safety inspections under ...

In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

In a university laboratory in Singapore’s western industrial zone, a wall of plastic boxes contains the island nation’s newest emergency service recruits: cyborg cockroaches. Scores of Madagascan ...