Cockroaches with tiny backpacks could become the world’s most unexpected spy technology

A German firm is turning cockroaches into spy tools and rescuers. These insects can navigate dangerous areas where machines ...
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China mind-controls bees with ‘world’s lightest brain chip’ for spying, rescue ops

A team of scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology has developed the world’s lightest insect brain controller. The device weighs a tiny 74 milligrams, making it lighter than a sack of nectar ...
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These cyborg cockroaches could save your life — and be a privacy nightmare

Cyborg bugs, enhanced with wires in their brains and electrodes fused to their exoskeletons, sound like something ripped from the pages of a pulpy sci-fi novel. But scientists have been trying to ...
Rapid City Journal

Tiny spy planes could mimic birds, insects

SAN DIEGO -- You'll never look at hummingbirds the same again. The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and audio ...
Chico Enterprise-Record

Creepy crawlies | Snapshot

Insect lovers showed up on Friday-the-Thirteenth, for the Eye Spy Insect Halloween experience put on by the Oroville Botanic Gardens and Education Center at the historic Dunstone Hall in Oroville. In ...