Meet Japan’s cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you

Meet Japan’s cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches. That’s a potential application of a recent breakthrough by Japanese researchers who demonstrated the ability to mount “backpacks” of solar cells and electronics on the […]

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