Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a cyborg insect swarm to explore disaster zones and perhaps even Mars
I don’t think we should be doing this.
I won’t deny this is fascinating. But the proposed uses just sound like excuses to keep messing with bugs.
I am not grasping any advantage to using cyborg bugs for these tasks instead of just regular robots.
Also, yeah, lets introduce a notoriously hardy pest species that we regularly joke would survive a nuclear holocaust to Mars. Great idea.
First step onto human control ?
The advantage is a robot that’s using no lithium or battery derivative but it’s using the most dense for of energy, ATP itself
guessing cheap enough to produce to not need to properly dispose.
About time! I’m tired of my cyborg roaches drowning in puddles.
Mars… or your toilet
Next up: Funnel-Web Spider spray.
A concoction that makes them impervious to any form of damage, improved web strength and grants a Predator-like camouflage ability.
The Hartz-Timor swarm? Please don’t build this.
I mean almost certainly these could fit up someone’s butt
