Keisuke Morishima, who led the hybrid biology-meets-robotics study, noted that this approach to creating cyborg insects is a better way to go than traditional methods of controlling their behavior.

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The distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...

The chirp of the cicada, the sound of many summers, has received an electronic upgrade that turns the insects into cyborg loudspeakers playing anything from Pachelbel’s Canon to the theme from Top Gun ...

Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine ...

Cyborg cockroaches equipped with Bluetooth backpacks are being used at Marquette University to teach neuroscience to students ...

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