Resumen de Roaches to the rescue
Cybernetically enhanced insects controlled by a drone can be deployed to comb the rubble of an earthquake site, looking for survivors. Alper Bozkurt and colleagues at North Carolina State University in Raleigh have created cyborg cockroaches with tiny electrodes implanted to serve as a kind of electronic bridle. This stimulates the antennae which they use to understand their physical environment, he says. The cockroaches are good at scrabbling through tricky terrain, making them ideal search-and-rescue scouts
