Cyborg cockroaches can work as a team for rescue missions with system upgrade


Professor Hirotaka Sato shows a Madagascar hissing cockroach and the electronic device responsible for "swarming". - ST

SINGAPORE: Cyborg cockroaches on search-and-rescue missions can work as a team and follow a leader to cover terrain faster, thanks to a system upgrade developed by researchers in Singapore and Japan.

The cyborg insects can even help each other, flipping over those among them which have turned upside down.

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