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Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater (www.newscientist.com)

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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

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[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

But its still going to run out of energy and die unless you feed it. Plus I assume there has to be a battery in there to power the electronics controlling the thing, and transmitting telemetry.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

guessing cheap enough to produce to not need to properly dispose.