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Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
holy_calamity writes "DARPA's plans to create brain chips for insects so they can be steered like an RC plane are bearing fruit. Videos show that a team at Berkeley can use radio signals to tell palm-sized African beetles to take off and land, and to lose altitude and steer left or right when in flight. They had to use the less-than-inconspicuous giant beetles because other species are too weak to take off with the weight of the necessary antenna and brain and muscle electrodes."
Are you on a "The 5th Element" scavenger hunt or something? ;)
The video was posted on March 07, 2008.
I like how this is marked +1 informative. should be funny, but oh well.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?