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.

SWARM Biotactics, a German company, is fitting cockroaches with tiny backpacks to enable the insects to be used for ...

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 ...

A swarm of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target location while avoiding obstacles and each other. Researchers say such swarms could be contained inside large robots and ...

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 ...