Scientists have managed to create creepy cyborg cockroaches with solar-powered backpacks, allowing them to steer them around.
Fukuda et. al./Riken
This isn’t the first time someone has hooked up electronics to a cockroach. However, this newest bit of research focused on creating a much smaller backpack design for the insects. In a study published in the journal, the researchers note that they wanted to create a system that didn’t impair the cyborg insects.
This kind of invasive research has had multiple concerns raised about it. In the past, researchers with Rice Universityout of dead spiders. But the key here is that those spiders were already dead. In this instance, the cyborg cockroach is still very much alive. And that has some researchers concerned about the pain insects feel when wired up to a control system of this sort.
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