Researchers from Texas A&M have turned roaches into “hybrid robotic systems” by implanting electrodes in their nervous systems and controlling their movements with the help of a tiny high-tech backpack.
Some insects are being transformed into high-tech devices.
As a team of researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station described in their paper, “cockroaches were engineered into a remotely controlled hybrid robotic system.”
While previous efforts have involved controlling the insect through antennae stimulation, this experiment implants electrodes directly into the nervous system.
The roaches were then fitted with tiny power packs which included a battery and a microchip embedded with
