{"id":224339,"date":"2024-04-16T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/watch-a-swarm-of-cyborg-cockroaches-controlled-by-computers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:33","slug":"watch-a-swarm-of-cyborg-cockroaches-controlled-by-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/watch-a-swarm-of-cyborg-cockroaches-controlled-by-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/16104646\/SEI_200153574.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image wp-image-2427019 size-full ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Yang Bai, et al. (2024)\" data-caption=\"The cyborg cockroaches being tested on desert-like terrain\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The cyborg cockroaches being tested on desert-like terrain<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Yang Bai, et al. (2024)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>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 released on cue to do jobs that would take too long for a single machine, such as taking sensor readings or hunting for specific objects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr.ntu.edu.sg\/cris\/rp\/rp00125\">Hirotaka Sato<\/a> at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and his colleagues have previously demonstrated that a Madagascar hissing cockroach (<em>Gromphadorhina portentosa<\/em>) can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2280057-cyborg-cockroach-with-camera-backpack-can-be-steered-remotely\/\">controlled by a computer and steered\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2424745-watch-a-swarm-of-cyborg-cockroaches-controlled-by-computers\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The cyborg cockroaches being tested on desert-like terrain Yang Bai, et al. 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