I don’t think we should be doing this.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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About time! I'm tired of my cyborg roaches drowning in puddles.
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.
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
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.
guessing cheap enough to produce to not need to properly dispose.
Next up: Funnel-Web Spider spray.
A concoction that makes them impervious to any form of damage, improved web strength and grants a Predator-like camouflage ability.
The Hartz-Timor swarm? Please don't build this.
Mars... or your toilet
I mean almost certainly these could fit up someone's butt