DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 20, 2009 @11:07AM from the bug-with-a-bug dept.

EmagGeek writes "Attempts by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic 'bugs') have yielded ultra-low power radios to control the bugs' flight and a method of powering those circuits by harvesting energy, according to research that will be reported this week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. 'Electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. When the moth emerges the electrodes stimulate its muscles to control its flight. I expect a run on bug zappers any day."

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I, for one, welcome our new Insect Overlords by relikx · 2009-02-20 11:09 · Score: 5, Funny

If you sign up now you won't get hive duty and can assist as a pollinator.
At mere $3,000,000 per bug... by Phizzle · 2009-02-20 11:52 · Score: 5, Funny

At mere $3,000,000 per bug our government will create swarms of moths to charge into the windshields of Taliban truckers and irk the crap out of them.

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Cellphones mutating? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-20 13:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Its more likely than you think. ;)