4M4Life.com

Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« on: September 09, 2012, 09:39:15 AM »
Quote
Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look for survivors.

Video footage from the experiments at North Carolina State University shows the part-robot roaches being directed along a curving path via remote control. The researchers say they attached a lightweight chip with a wireless receiver and transmitter onto Madagascar hissing cockroaches and wired a microcontroller to the insects' antennae and cerci — the sensory organs on the bug's abdomen that cause it to run away from danger.

With electrical signals, the researchers stimulated the cerci to trick the roaches into thinking they needed to scamper away from a predator. Once moving, charges sent to the antennae controlled the insects' direction. A signal sent to one antenna could make a roach think its feeler was touching a wall, sending it in the opposite direction, a statement from NC State explained.

"Building small-scale robots that can perform in such uncertain, dynamic conditions is enormously difficult. We decided to use biobotic cockroaches in place of robots, as designing robots at that scale is very challenging, and cockroaches are experts at performing in such a hostile environment," NC State researcher Alper Bozkurt said in the statement.

"Ultimately, we think this will allow us to create a mobile web of smart sensors that uses cockroaches to collect and transmit information, such as finding survivors in a building that's been destroyed by an earthquake," Bozkurt added.

The researchers reported the results of their experiments late last month at the annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society in San Diego, Calif.

Other researchers have floated the possibility of technologically enhanced roaches. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University demonstrated how the insects could be outfitted with an implantable biofuel cell powered by a sugar the bugs make from their food. Electricity from such a cell then could be used to power sensors on the insect or to manipulate it by remote control.

http://news.yahoo.com/cyborg-cockroaches-may-future-emergency-responders-202431344.html

I think this is cool, but what is next?!?!?! They could be just robotic.

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2012, 01:44:42 AM »
ill rad this tommarow... but for now... the title alone creeps me out. like i ain't fraid o bugs... but shit.... cockroaches with potential to do many things man..... so many things.... freky

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG

Offline tkoold

  • *
  • 11928
  • 69
  • The Kool Dude
    • Ranma 1/2 Fans
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2012, 12:49:50 PM »
yeah technology is getting crazy with its potential..

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2012, 03:54:42 PM »
ok now that i read this.... bug abuse. those poor lil cockroaches man... why cant they just live life free not as shock induced drones..... i'm sad now. seriously.

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2012, 04:52:20 PM »
animals rights groups

bugs rights groups

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2012, 07:49:07 PM »
yea man... someone gotta start one... they get no respect. T^T


Offline tkoold

  • *
  • 11928
  • 69
  • The Kool Dude
    • Ranma 1/2 Fans
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 04:04:57 AM »
maybe if Starship Troopers the movie were real we bug rights would be squashed lol PUN INTENDED :P

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2012, 11:22:37 AM »
they made like 4 sequels to that....

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2012, 01:53:38 PM »
*yet agin fails to recognize pop culture referances... pretends it's MIB*

Offline tkoold

  • *
  • 11928
  • 69
  • The Kool Dude
    • Ranma 1/2 Fans
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2012, 01:54:58 PM »
Willow you have to see the First Star Ship Troopers Movie its so OBNOXIOUS, and yeah kinjo i want to see them but ive heard they are all Terrible but they keep making movies because the original Created such a cult following.

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2012, 08:22:17 PM »
like resident evil did, nothing like the games... such fallacies

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2012, 12:00:24 AM »
*still needs to play that game too* .... i feel like too much of my to do lists consist of screens some times... o well~ *skips*

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2012, 07:07:09 AM »
try the game "Go" it's a board game

really fun against other peoples

Offline willow

  • *
  • 1338
  • 32
  • how now brown cow?
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2012, 02:38:40 PM »
is this like a new game... or that weird japanese checkers one....? *never heard of it*

Offline tkoold

  • *
  • 11928
  • 69
  • The Kool Dude
    • Ranma 1/2 Fans
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #16 on: September 14, 2012, 02:57:40 PM »
dude i bet the profits from the resident Evil movies could Fund the Next Sega video game system... (Sega & kanomi Invented resident evil.. it doesent exist without them)

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2012, 12:41:06 PM »
its old japanese checkers one, but it's nothing like checkers

you start with an empty board, and only two colors white and black

Offline tkoold

  • *
  • 11928
  • 69
  • The Kool Dude
    • Ranma 1/2 Fans
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2012, 02:47:05 AM »
ive played chinese checkers but not Japanese checkers... I feel so Racial now lol... how many countrys have their own Version of Checkers?

Offline kinjo

  • *
  • 30389
  • 24
  • Lavalle Lee
    • FLASHCARTOONS.ORG
Re: Cyborg cockroaches may be emergency responders
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2012, 10:41:44 AM »
they don't consider it checkers...

it's called go and it doesn't even play like checkers...