Yep, our wacky friends at the US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (
DARPA) are at it again, developing
cyborg moths for use in covert
reconnaissance. The bugs will be grown from larvae around a mechanical core that will interface directly with the creature's nervous system, creating a remotely controllable cyborg moth capable of transmitting images from a tiny fiber optic camera. I couldn't have said it better than
The Register, who astutely noted that that if you swap moths with Austrian body builders, you've pretty much got the plot of
The Terminator all set up to happen for real.
This project, Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS), comes from the agency's
Microsystems Technology Office. But, if you've got some time to kill, I highly recommend perusing some of DARPA's other publicly disclosed mad science-y projects on the programs page of their
Defense Sciences Office. It definitely makes you wonder... if they have all this stuff on their website, what the hell is classified?
Yep, our wacky friends at the US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are at it again, developing cyborg moths for use in covert reconnaissance. The bugs will be grown from larvae around a mechanical core that will interface directly with the creature's nervous system, creating a remotely controllable cyborg moth capable of transmitting images from a tiny fiber optic camera. I couldn't have said it better than The Register, who astutely noted that that if you swap moths with Austrian body builders, you've pretty much got the plot of The Terminator all set up to happen for real.
This project, Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS), comes from the agency's Microsystems Technology Office. But, if you've got some time to kill, I highly recommend perusing some of DARPA's other publicly disclosed mad science-y projects on the programs page of their Defense Sciences Office. It definitely makes you wonder... if they have all this stuff on their website, what the hell is classified?
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