Cyborg cockroaches equipped with Bluetooth backpacks are being used at Marquette University to teach neuroscience to students ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WISN) - Instructors at a university in Milwaukee are using cockroaches to teach students about neuroscience.

Hirotaka Sato, a professor at NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has spent over a decade developing the ...

As if cockroaches weren’t creepy enough already, researchers have found a way to make them even more so. A team at the University of Osaka is using UV light helmets to direct cyborg cockroaches. The ...

By shining light into either eye, the researchers could steer the cockroach left or right. The team's paper, which appeared in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems earlier this month, noted that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital illustration released by Swarm Biotactics shows what they describe as cyborg cockroaches By Supantha Mukherjee, Sarah ...

Osaka, Japan - In a breakthrough that blends biology and robotics, researchers at The University of Osaka have created a new type of insect cyborg that can navigate autonomously—without wires, surgery ...

Cyborg cockroaches guided by ultraviolet light and motion feedback navigate obstacles autonomously, showing how noninvasive control can coordinate biological movement with electronic sensing.

Germany's defense ministry is now funding tests to see if hissing cockroaches from Madagascar can be used as reconnaissance drones on the battlefield. It sounds like something out of a futuristic ...

(Left to right) NTU Research Fellow Dr Tran Ngoc Phuoc Thanh; Senior Research Fellow Dr Le Duc Long; Prof Hirotaka Sato; Research Engineers Jean Allen Academia and Mya Myet Thwe Chit; and Project ...

The sight of cockroaches scurrying across the floor may give some people a scare, but the creepy crawlers may one day help save people in a disaster. Researchers at North Carolina State University ...