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

submitted 6 days ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 15 points 6 days ago

I don’t think we should be doing this.

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (2 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.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

First step onto human control ?

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

There are already companies working on human brain implants for machine interface. Ostensibly for helping disabled persons. But with one of those companies being an Elon Musk venture, I'm quite wary of where it can lead.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 3 points 6 days ago

About time! I'm tired of my cyborg roaches drowning in puddles.

[–] LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Mars... or your toilet

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

The Hartz-Timor swarm? Please don't build this.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

I mean almost certainly these could fit up someone's butt