While many people are working out how to genocide the cockroach population, a team of Japanese boffins are turning them into robot heros. Japanese researchers have discovered a way to mount solar ...

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.

Scientists turned a bunch of cockroaches into remote-controllable cyborgs — and then built them little scuba suits so they can swim underwater, transforming them into powerful amphibian troopers. Rest ...

A novel control system for cyborg insects uses charge-balanced biphasic electrical stimulation to enhance precision and reduce tissue damage. The system, tested on Madagascar hissing cockroaches, ...