Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack. Researchers have made major strides in ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google It’s a different kind of “Help” by the Beetles. Between bomb-detecting rats and medical-grade maggots, it’s clear that ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In complex, unpredictable environments such as earthquake rubble, collapsed buildings, or narrow industrial ducts, conventional robots often fail to reach where they’re needed ...

​The cockroaches, like the team’s previous cyborg insect models, are anaesthetized during electrode and microchip fitting.

Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine ...

The future is crawling towards us on six legs. Motherboard traveled to Singapore to meet with Dr. Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer at Nanyang Technological University. Sato and his team are ...

(A) The cyborg is made of the darkling beetle Z. morio with electrodes implanted into its antennae and elytra and a wireless backpack mounted on its back. (B) Stimulation protocols for locomotion ...

In a groundbreaking fusion of nature and technology, researchers at the University of Queensland have developed remote-controlled beetles equipped with tiny, removable backpacks that could drastically ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University and the University of California have taken a giant flower beetle (Mecynorrhina torquata) and turned into a flying remote-controlled cyborg using mostly ...

(A) The cyborg is made of the darkling beetle Z. morio with electrodes implanted into its antennae and elytra and a wireless backpack mounted on its back. (B) Stimulation protocols for locomotion ...