This technology is being developed with good intentions and is probably the last thing you want to think about. The researchers at the RIKEN institute in Japan have designed a remote-controlled, rechargeable cockroach that can be used for search-and-rescue missions in hazardous areas and to monitor the environment.
Scientists have the ability to control the movements of live roaches.
The researchers had to come up with technology that conformed to the cockroach's body and held battery life. Their solution was a backpack with a battery that's recharged using built-in solar cells that stick the roaches. Ultra-thin solar cells were used to keep the roaches from moving.
The roaches legs are powered by a battery and they can be remotely controlled. The roaches do not fly and were tested by the team. The insects turned left and right for 30 minutes.
Kenjiro Fukuda, senior research scientist at RIKEN and the lead of the research team, believes that their strategy can be adapted to other insects in the future.
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