(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 ...

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 tiny wireless ...

Cockroaches have often been selected for remote control cyborg treatment, but they’re typically given instructions by electrically stimulating their antennae. This little, critter, though has the ...

Proving once again that this is Luc Besson’s world, and we’re just living in it, the world has moved one step closer to the Fifth Element. That’s right, remote-controlled cockroaches. The iBionicS Lab ...

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 tiny wireless ...

Have you ever wanted to control an army of cockroaches? We’ve all seen remote control cockroaches before — and they really are quite a fascinating specimen to work with — but did you know you can ...

A project currently on Kickstarter would give supporters the tools to remote-control a cockroach using their smartphones. Called RoboRoach, the project is billed as "the world's first commercially ...

Building robots is hard. Making them tiny, maneuverable, durable, and smart enough to find their way around in an unmapped environment—for instance, to find survivors trapped in a building after an ...

Natural systems retain significant advantages over engineered systems in many aspects, including size and versatility. Researchers have developed a hybrid robotic system using American (Periplaneta ...

It’s not illegal to crush or gas a cockroach, but according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, shocking it with electric volts in order to take over its brain should be a felony. The ...

In case you thought the cockroach key chain holder I wrote about earlier this year was disgusting, think again. Because today I give you a remote-controlled flying plastic cockroach [JP]. Just like ...