Cripes, why don’t we just hand the planet over to the robots already. Things were bad with the self-controlling war machines and computers capable of destroying our greatest trivia minds, but now we’ve invented biological electricity harvesters. Might as well build a fleet of Squids while we’re at it. More »
A recently discovered South African cockroach leaps through the air like a missile, traversing nearly 50 times its body length with every hop. More »
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SKITTERBOT claims to be the fastest-legged micro-robotic toy in the world. And from the video, which shows a swarm of these colourful $US20 robo-cockroaches zipping around in a frenzy, I can imagine that might be correct. More »
DASH, a UC Berkeley-designed, cockroach-inspired robot, manages to take what makes cockroaches so resilient and even retain the cockroach’s singularly creepy movement. This thing is near-indestructible. More »
Until we get organic cyborg beetles at the pet store, we’ll have to use these RC helicopters that look like real roaches.
