Pentagon's Cyber-Insects All Grown Up

Subject: Pentagon's Cyber-Insects All Grown Up Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:37 am

For years, now, Pentagon-backed researchers have been trying to create cyborg insects that could serve as living, remote-controlled spies. The problem is, those modified bugs never survived long enough to be useful. Now, Georgia Tech professor Robert Michelson says he’s managed to get the bug ‘borgs to live into adulthood.

DARPA’s Hi-MEMS program aims to implant place micro-mechanical systems [MEMS] “inside the insects during the early stages of metamorphosis,” the agency explains. That way, as the bugs get older, tissues grow around — and fuse together with — the tiny machines.

Flight International reports that, in his latest work, Michelson truncated a Manduca moth’s thorax “to reduce its mass.” Then he put in “a MEMS component… where abdominal segments would have been, during the larval stage.”

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/for-years-now-p.html

Pentagon's Cyber-Insects All Grown Up

Pentagon's Cyber-Insects All Grown Up

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