Cyborgs made of cockroaches

Japanese engineers made cyborgs out of cockroaches and implanted them with implants to control movement.Such

Insects are proposed to be united in a swarm to line up in shapes or move something.

Madagascar cockroaches were fitted with an implant, control boards, and unique matrix barcodes.A camera is placed above the insects, and the algorithm tracks the position of each cockroach and givespersonal commands.

Engineers have shown that cyborg cockroaches can be lined up in the desired shapes.As part of the experiment, a marker was also attached to the insect, which could move on a sheet of paper.A controlled cockroach could use this to draw shapes on the sheet.Cyborg cockroaches can also move a plastic sphere.

The fact that insects work in a swarm makes it easy to deal with a situation where one insect fails. Then it can simply be replaced by another.