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US Army creates cyborg beetles to fight future wars
Tech Digest — ... be incredibly cheap and easy to build a vast cloud of evil cyborg beetles and send them at your foes. I might even be that there's these poor beetles in California, alive, and unable to do anything but passively observe the remainder of their pitiful existence as their muscles spasm upon commands from military generals. I think it's a combination of all three, so how about we end this post right about now, before I start shivering helplessly. Remote Controlled Beetles (via Hackaday) More beetle news: Forest fire fighting beetle-like robots in ...

The remote-controlled beetle
MAKE Magazine — ... into the animals' optic lobes and flight muscles. Flight commands are wirelessly sent to the beetle via a radio-frequency transmitter that's controlled by a nearby laptop. Oscillating electrical pulses delivered to the beetle's optic lobes trigger takeoff, while a single short pulse ceases flight. Signals sent to the left or right basilar flight muscles make the animal turn right or left, respectively.Head over to Technology Review to see the video. [via Hack a Day] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more ...