Cockroaches with electronic chips to control them remotely

An international team of scientists has created "cyborg" cockroaches by connecting electronics to their nervous systems that allow remote control.

Researchers, according to the website "Byte", which specializes in modern inventions, installed wireless control units powered by rechargeable batteries in the appearance of cockroaches called Madagascar cockroaches because of their ability to grow up to 2.4 inches (about 10 cm).

The chip allowed the scientists to send cockroaches a great distance and control them.

The researchers believe that the development of this process will one day allow it to be harnessed to help during search and rescue missions or to help monitor the environment.

The researchers titled their research “the first cyborg cockroaches,” according to a new research paper published in the journal npj Flexible Electronics. They wrote that these new cockroaches have a number of innovations that allowed them to control for longer periods of time, including batteries that stay charged for a long time, allowing For researchers to remotely control cockroaches for extended periods of time.

"The body-mounted ultra-thin organic solar cell module achieves an output power of 17.2 μW, which is more than 50 times higher than the power output of current state-of-the-art energy collectors on live insects," the published paper states.

 "Cockroaches will not be dispatched during search and rescue missions anytime soon," said a senior research scientist at Riken University.

"The current system only contains a wireless motion control system, so it is not enough to set up an application such as urban rescue," he added.

"By incorporating other required hardware such as sensors and cameras, we can use our own cyborg bugs for such purposes."

According to the researcher, the same technique can be applied to beetles as well.

For observers, experimentation was an interesting futuristic vision, according to one who imagined "an army of remote-controlled cyborgs that could infiltrate hard-to-reach locations or monitor crops."

But here's the warning: "Scientists have to develop this technology carefully, so no one wants to risk the uprising of a cyborg cockroach. (against humans)"

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