In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

“A lot of people might not like the sight of a giant cockroach scurrying towards them, but if you’re trapped in rubble or ...

Cyborg cockroaches with cameras and medical injectors could help rescuers reach trapped people in dangerous, confined spaces.

What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg? Definitely one that can also breathe underwater. Yet, this is exactly what researchers have just created, except they are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a special machine to automatically turn cockroaches ...

Goggle-wearing cockroaches can be steered via remote control By Abhimanyu Ghoshal May 25, 2025 Lights shone into a cockroach's individual eyes can steer it left or right thanks to an innate tendency ...

Scientists in Singapore unleashed an army of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches in a desert terrain to test such a swarm for future search-and-rescue missions. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research ...

The future of search and rescue could come down to the bug that's seemingly impossible to kill, as cockroaches look set to ...