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HTTP:: First Flying 039 Cyborg 039 Insect Demonstrated
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It would finally appear that some of the money channeled into the Pentagon has yielded conclusive results. A project the institution funded, and that was conducted by experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), has managed to create the first cyborg flying insect, a machine of sorts that is half biological and half mechanical. The accomplishment sent ripples of amazement through the international scientific community, as this was the first time a flying insect was controlled via computer. Three “variants” of beetles were created in the new project, the UCB science team has shown. They were flown inside a room using nothing more than a laptop computer. When one of the cyborgs was tethered to a transparent plate, it became obvious how it moved its limbs, in response to the commands it received from its human operator. The two researchers in charge of the UCB team were Michel Maharbiz and Hirotaka Sato, and they “demonstrated the remote control of insec!
ts in free flight via an implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating system,” the two wrote in the latest issue of the Frontiers in Neuroscience magazine. “It's because we have got much better at nanotechnology and making small probes that we are able to do this. You are plugging electri...
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