A team of scientists in Japan are making progress on a creation they’re calling “Robobug” – a remote-controlled cockroach. While the idea of cyborg roaches may seem terrifying, researchers at Riken ...

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.

A study on the remote-controlled cockroach titled "Integration of body-mounted ultrasoft organic solar cell on cyborg insects with intact mobility" has been published in the journal npj Flexible ...

Scientists have created a remote controllable cybernetic cockroach that could one day help rescue workers search for survivors in the wake of a disaster. A team of scientists, led by researchers from ...

Here’s some nightmare fuel for your Wednesday. Scientists have developed cyborg cockroaches controlled by tiny solar-powered backpacks, with the goal of turning them into a creepy-crawly ...

Why design robots from scratch when nature has already done a lot of the hard work for us? That’s the reasoning behind cyborg insects, and now scientists have found a way to make remote-controlled ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team led by researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has engineered a system for creating remote controlled cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a ...

Given a box full of cockroaches, the first thing most of us would do is try to locate the nearest source of fire. Lucky for the roaches, the team over at Backyard Brains look at things a bit ...