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Cyborg cockroaches can now be steered with UV goggles

Steering the Unseen: Tiny Helmets Guide Cyborg Cockroaches Get ready to rethink what’s possible in robotics! Researchers at the University of Osaka have achieved a remarkable feat – steering cyborg cockroaches using just UV goggles. This innovative approach bypasses the need for invasive surgery or complex internal wiring, offering a surprisingly elegant solution for controlling these miniature…

Cyborg cockroaches can now be steered with UV goggles

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DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics

DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics

Image: DARPA

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a showcase for how very large, very expensive robots could potentially be useful in disaster recovery and high-risk environments. Humanoids are particularly capable in some very specific situations, but the rest of the time, they’re probably overkill, and using smaller, cheaper, more specialized robots is much more efficient. This is especially…

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Jumping on Water: Robotic Water Strider from Wyss Institute on Vimeo

Dreams of walking on water might seem a little crazy, but there are insects in this world that are capable of just that. water striders achieve this complex maneuver by not only skimming along water’s surface yet they also generate enough upward thrust with their legs to launch themselves into the air. an international team of scientists from seoul national university, harvard’s wyss institute for biologically inspired engineering and the harvard john a. paulson school of engineering and applied sciences have just unveiled a set of robotic insects that can jump off of the water’s surface. the robotic insect was built using a catapult mechanism that can exert up to 16 times its own body weight, which allows this kind of extreme movements

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I sure hope roboticists are never inspired by these mechanistic insect illustrations by Tano Veron because they sure are inspiring my nightmares!

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Instead of starting from scratch and having to solve all those pesky movement problems that plague roboticists, some researchers have asked, why not start out with living creatures that already know how to walk and fly? Then all we have to do is make them robotlike, outfitting them with the right technology so that we can enslave them and make them do our bidding

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