CYBORG BEETLES - Scientists Manage to Remote Control Cyborg Beetles. Future of Surveillance?

 
A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. Electrical signals delivered via the electrodes command the insect to take off, turn left or right, or hover in midflight. The research, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), could one day be used for surveillance purposes or for search-and-rescue missions.

Beetles and other flying insects are masters of flight control, integrating sensory feedback from the visual system and other senses to navigate and maintain stable flight, all the while using little energy. Rather than trying to re-create these systems from scratch, Michel Maharbiz and his colleagues aim to take advantage of the beetle’s natural abilities by melding insect and machine. His group has previously created cyborg beetles, including ones that have been implanted with electronic components as pupae. But the current research, presented at the IEEE MEMS in Italy, is the first demonstration of a wireless beetle system.

Scientists have controlled the mid-air movements of free-flying insects using a radio transmitter and a miniature backpack of electronics worn by “cyborg beetles”.

The beetles were made to take off and land, fly to the right or left, and even to hover in mid-flight depending on the radio commands, the scientists said. cyborg singapore beetle "giant beetle" insect control "remote control" "nano technology" tech technology science scientist muscle asia future research radio stimulate scifi sci-fi flight survival charity "search and rescue" simulation flying robot robotics design evolution university MIT military drone "dji phantom 3" tool "natural disaster" u.s. usa america "united states" rfid chip implant future computer body insects news entertainment "elite nwo agenda" trends trending max keiser trews montagraph prediction the matrix movie david icke alex jones infowars bilderberg monkey program belief religion movie documentary secret program obama fema camp police state anonymous cctv

If the technology can be further refined, it would be possible in the future to use flying insects as miniature drones loaded with tiny electronic sensors for flying over and searching difficult terrain, they said. “This is a demonstration of how tiny electrodes can answer interesting, fundamental questions for the larger scientific community. Biologists trying to record and study flying insects typically had to do so with the subject tethered. It has been unclear if tethering interfered with the insect’s natural flight motions,” he said.

Smartphone of the future will be in your brain, offers a semi-satirical look at transhumanism and the idea of humans becoming part cyborg by having communications devices implanted in their body. Forget the roachbots and the swarm of MIT humanoid robots dancing in sync, as well as “disposable” quarter-sized kilobots which are “cheap enough to swarm in the thousands,” and think instead of DARPA-like tiny insect cyborg drones that are “designed to go places that soldiers cannot” to work as spies or as swarm weapons. Is this a mosquito micro air vehicle (MAV)? Alan Lovejoy wrote, “Such a device could be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone. It could land on you and then use its needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it could inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin.” While DNA-sucking, RFID-chip-injecting mosquito drones are currently a bunch of bunk, a Bing image search shows a multitude of MAVs that aren’t simply CGI mockups. The new incarnation of Boston Dynamics’ PETMAN robot, being developed for DARPA with Department of Defense funding, not only looks human but it also sweats to regulate body temperature. The new Verizon commercial for the DROID DNA by HTC is kind of creepy. Especially for those who are weary of things that stink of a Brave New World.




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