Cyborg Insects

by Brian Bierman

Watch the video below.  Since September of 2009 research teams at several American universities have published results and video of their experiments with insects.  Cyborg insects; cyborg meaning the union of machine and biology.  Mounting a computer chip, radio frequency receiver and electrodes to the body of a moth or beetle, researchers have learned to somewhat control insect flight.  They can control take-off and steering to the left or right by delivering small voltages to specific muscles.

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