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 ...

Everyone's heard the pop culture myth that cockroaches are virtually indestructible and will be the only animals to survive ...

Scientists have engineered a groundbreaking 3D-printed suit for insects, enabling them to operate underwater. This innovation ...

What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg? Definitely one that can also breathe underwater. Yet, ...

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches' movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, ...

The invention comes after a decade of research into cyborg insects – which could be used in search and rescue missions ...

A swarm of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target location while avoiding obstacles and each other. Researchers say such swarms could be contained inside large robots and ...

Remote-controlled cockroaches are thing of the past, practically considered peasantry by the remote-controlled insect community, if such a thing were to exist. Well, not really, but why settle for ...

Scientists have figured out how to hack the brains of fruit flies in order to control them wirelessly. A team of neuroengineers led by Rice University were able to use magnetic signals to activate ...

Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which did previously release a model bionic bird). Well, the ...