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Meet Japan's cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you

By Rocky Swift and Tom Bateman

Sep 23 2022 11:45AM

Novel aid for first responders.

Meet Japan's cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you

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 ...

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