Researchers have developed remote-controlled cockroaches.
They claim it’s for a good cause.
Remote-controlled cockroaches may soon be coming to the rescue of trapped disaster victims.
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University have harnessed the insect’s movements through electrical signals and believe it could help find people trapped in collapsed buildings and other disaster zones unnavigable by humans.
“The trick is to fire wireless signals at a roach’s antennae and other sensory organs to guide it to a desired destination,” Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, told scientificamerican.com. “What we do is similar to riding a horse.”
Yeah, whatever, that’s creepy.
Why couldn’t the make tiny remote-controlled bunny rabbits instead? Why cockroaches? Why?
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