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."

Comments

Re:I for one

[Anonymous Coward]

I am swarmed with the feeling that this will bug a lot of people.

Re:Sweet, but needs a lot of work still

[JimboFBX]

What is amazing if you think about it is how far and fast insects can go with so little energy consumption. In contrast, a simple little radio...

Too bad this technology only works

[chrismiceli]

in Africa. Where else will giant African beatles blend in?!

Re:I for one

[Digital Vomit]

Patience, grasshopper.

Oh...I've said too much...