The remote-controlled insects are equipped with cameras to search disaster zones and check for infrastructure damage ...

Hirotaka Sato, a professor at NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has spent over a decade developing the ...

Researchers in Singapore are creating cyborg cockroaches by attaching robotic devices to Madagascar hissing cockroaches to ...

Each cockroach is fitted with a plastic “carriage” that houses an on-board processor and an electronic circuit board. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

As if cockroaches weren’t creepy enough already, researchers have found a way to make them even more so. A team at the University of Osaka is using UV light helmets to direct cyborg cockroaches. The ...

(Left to right) NTU Research Fellow Dr Tran Ngoc Phuoc Thanh; Senior Research Fellow Dr Le Duc Long; Prof Hirotaka Sato; Research Engineers Jean Allen Academia and Mya Myet Thwe Chit; and Project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital illustration released by Swarm Biotactics shows what they describe as cyborg cockroaches By Supantha Mukherjee, Sarah ...

Cyborg cockroaches guided by ultraviolet light and motion feedback navigate obstacles autonomously, showing how noninvasive control can coordinate biological movement with electronic sensing.

The sight of cockroaches scurrying across the floor may give some people a scare, but the creepy crawlers may one day help save people in a disaster. Researchers at North Carolina State University ...

Scientists in Singapore have industrialised the production of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches that one day could form a tiny army suitable for disaster search missions. Last month, researchers ...

Germany's defense ministry is now funding tests to see if hissing cockroaches from Madagascar can be used as reconnaissance drones on the battlefield. It sounds like something out of a futuristic ...