Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack. Researchers have made major strides in ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In complex, unpredictable environments such as earthquake rubble, collapsed buildings, or narrow industrial ducts, conventional robots often fail to reach where they’re needed ...

The fusion of a living beetle and a tiny control backpack, also known as cyborg beetle, enables insect free-flight study. Using such a system, researchers from Nanyang Technological University, ...

It’s a different kind of “Help” by the Beetles. Between bomb-detecting rats and medical-grade maggots, it’s clear that one person’s pest is another’s savior. The latest member of this unlikely league ...

Remote-controlled “cyborg beetles” could be used to help discover people trapped in collapsed buildings or mines, research has revealed. Australian scientists equipped darkling insects with removable ...

Lachlan Fitzgerald, a research assistant at the University of Queensland, paints a vivid picture of this scenario as he submerges a giant burrowing cockroach in an ice bath and attaches a tiny circuit ...

In a groundbreaking fusion of nature and technology, researchers at the University of Queensland have developed remote-controlled beetles equipped with tiny, removable backpacks that could drastically ...

Common darkling beetles have been transformed into “cyborg insects” capable of aiding search and rescue missions. Researchers at the University of Queensland have fitted cyborg beetles with microchip ...