These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life—No, Really

[Mina] These cyborg cockroaches could save your life.

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Small robots and drones are already employed

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by locating victims in locations that are too hard,

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or dangerous to send humans, like collapsed buildings.

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But what sets the so-called Paraborg apart

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is that it's also designed to directly administer first aid.

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on a giant burrowing cockroach from northern Queensland.

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They developed two types of Paraborgs.

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and another fitted with an automatic injection mechanism

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To create the cyborgs, the team anesthetized them

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before applying electrodes and microchips.

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By applying electrical stimuli to electrodes

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embedded in the cockroach's antennae and cerci,

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a pair of protruding sensory organs

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researchers were able to remotely control

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the bug's direction of travel and walking speed.

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While the idea of receiving medical care from a cockroach

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the new cyborg bug could one day help buy human rescuers

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Oh, and when the equipment's removed,

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the Parabogs go back to living their lives

Original source: https://www.wired.com/