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Researches In Japan Have Created Cyborg Cockroaches

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October 29, 2022

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Researchers in Japan have figured out how to create tiny backpacks that allow them to essentially take over the body of a cockroach, and control it by remote control. Jayar Jackson and David Shuster break it down on The Watchlist. Watch LIVE on weekdays at noon ET.

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"If an earthquake strikes in the not-too-distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.

That's a potential application of a recent breakthrough by Japanese researchers who demonstrated the ability to mount "backpacks" of solar cells and electronics on the bugs and control their motion by remote control.

Kenjiro Fukuda and his team at the Thin-Film Device Laboratory at Japanese research giant Riken developed a flexible solar cell film that's 4 microns thick, about 1/25 the width of a human hair, and can fit on the insect's abdomen."

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