Mechanical engineers with the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a remote-controlled cockroach using a pain-free method. The aim? Use this novel technology to create an army of ...

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.

Cockroaches may be considered vermin but one team of scientists has found a way to keep the pests under control - remote control that is. Michigan-based Backyard Brains created an electric backpack ...

Swarms of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches are being created and developed in labs. Japanese scientists have utilised the two inch long Madagascan hissing cockroach in a project that sounds right ...

Researchers have shown off a 'cyborg' cockroach they can control remotely. The team have been able to accurately steer it to follow complex shapes on the ground. Now they hope to fit it with video ...

"We decided to use biobotic cockroaches in place of robots, as designing robots at that scale is very challenging and cockroaches are experts at performing in such a hostile environment." The backpack ...

Animal rights campaigners have condemned a company for selling a device that allows people to create their own robo-bugs and remotely control cockroaches using a mobile phone app. US Start-up Backyard ...

A technology company that launched an "electronic backpack" allowing kids to control a cockroach's movements has been forced to defend itself against claims its latest gadget amounts to animal cruelty ...

Scientists in Singapore unleashed an army of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches in a desert terrain to test such a swarm for future search-and-rescue missions. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research ...

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at North Carolina State University have created a remote-control system to stimulate and steer cockroaches, they reported at the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in ...

IT SOUNDS like something from a sci-fi horror flick, but a team of scientists are determined to make a success of live remote-controlled COCKROACHES. Despite concerns over the ethics of ...