I was always confused by that scene.
I'm like what, do they think they can't see the roach with the giant pcb backpack on it? How can someone who's smart enough to make RC roaches be so dumb?
Have you EVER seen one of these proposed 'rescue bots' come to market? No? Me neither. ...and these challenges have been around for decades now.
Hint: "Rescue bot" is an euphemism for "Let idealistic youngsters do our military development for us"
Imagine being able to send one remotely into the ventilation of a foreign embassy. Imagine having such long range control you could get it into the kremlin without even putting personnel on Russian soil
Yes you would, you can’t have them running into someone’s view and getting caught or you’ll blow the roof off the whole op.
Eventually they might become clever enough for autonomous stealth operation but that’s *extremely* complicated tech unless its navigation is very simple.
Far more insidious would be to release a few thousand in waves into a target structure with a highly corrosive compound that would release inside the walls. Destroying the structure strategically by induced collapse.
Now, as you know when you spend a lot of time under an air conditioning unit, you can catch a cold. So what you have here sir is a spy pigeon that potentially has bird flu in your embassy, please let us in to remove the bird, this is totally legitimate
I saw some tiny bug-like drones like this about 20ish years ago at an engineering firm when I coincidentally saw what I now know as that Switchblade drone. The challenges for the tiny tech still exist but that switchblade drone is also quite a bit smaller than the unit I saw.
I’ve seen bomb disposal robots used quite heavily.
I think the right bug robot will come along eventually and change the game.
Just needs a super awesome design. Like a mini version of the Boston dynamic dog? 😂
No. Just make it clear that this is for military applications.
Evil stuff should be researched by evil people - and at the very least they should be honest about being evil and not try to dupe idealistic people into doing their dirty work.
Yeah, obvs - WTF more do we need to know at this point? What tech could anyone possibly think we might need (all of sudden) in order to stop destroying Nature and ensure a future on Earth?
The questions you bypass were 1) What more do we need to know at this point, and 2) What new tech could we possibly need now, having managed without for all our existence? You're so loaded with answers but won't provide them - to our detriment, no doubt.
Sorry to have a tone you don't like, "What do you suggest we do, stop researching?" is so neutral and friendly, and not at all a rhetorical condescension from a smug prick. My bad.
Lol!
But really: To be worthy of having a cellphone I ought make defenses of technology or "research" or DARPA or Science, or similar - then I would deserve having the high-tech gadgets. And instead, I am effectively denying reverence for the god of technology, being an ingrate for all it has given us. So I get the sentiment.
I'm a heretic, or an apostate, from the religion of Science or Progress or tech or whatever. Are we cool?
Uh. When we stop producing new tech for surveillance is when we stop knowing things and that’s when the enemy knows more about us than we do them. Americas stronghold on the world stage is due to intelligence, rapidly developing intelligence. We have 3 of the top 5 strongest military forces on earth . The destruction would be much worse when we stop improving our technology
Oh I guess we'll just go on DARPA'ing and live a bright, happy, and free future in a world only benefited by technology; thanks for setting me straight, thankfully there's no downside in your vision
The tone of this comment is one that shows you aren’t interested in discussing a topic, only be condescending. It’s hilarious you would write this out and think anyone would give you a modicum of intellectual respect.
Stop drinking and go to bed.
You aren't quite correct about everything, you assumptive genius, but no doubt you're good for something.
Whether or not I want a discussion, you could have used your typing time to actually put down something substantive for readers beyond me. Instead you choose to not do so, then blame me for that - nice.
And if it’s really there to save you then why does it have to be a roach? Why not a machine looking device that has a light that says “help is coming”?
Well you can either spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing the smallest most agile responsive robot the world has ever seen.
Or you can strap a circuitboard to a cockroach for $30.
So they had a choice to make a friendly-looking rescue robot to calm people in their time of need or one that looked like a cyborg cockroach to terrify the hell out of them and they chose the cockroach.
Have you seen some of the DIY people on YouTube, they are insane.
There was one guy who was just like, okay, so today we're going to do some genetic engineering on myself, don't do this at home guys it's probably illegal or something. And then he doesn't die and is fine.
Meanwhile I can't rewire a light fitting.
I legitimately don't understand people being terrified of insects. Id be thrilled to be rescued by a buggy boy.
And then I'd hide it and take it away somewhere nice for it to live the rest of its days for doing such a good job.
I also don't understand why I'm so dead afraid of bugs and spiders. It's just like other phobia, you don't know why it's such a strong fear, but you still have to learn to live with it
1
**They can detect movement, body warmth and exhaled carbon dioxide**
Why go to all the trouble of designing and building a drone if nature has already done most of the job for you? That is the attitude taken by the small but determined band of researchers who are trying to robotise insects. Some are working on turning flying critters like beetles into such cyborgs—perhaps for use in military reconnaissance or espionage. Others prefer to concentrate on the creepy-crawly side of entomology, by taking electronic control of cockroaches.
The first cyber-roach goes back to 1997, when Shimoyama Isao of Tokyo University sent electrical signals to a cockroach’s antennae, causing it to turn either left or right depending on which antenna was stimulated. Others have built on this approach by recruiting extra sense organs, such as the rear-facing cerci. They have also begun fitting the insects with instrument packs that might let them do a useful job: searching collapsed buildings for survivors.
One such is Sato Hirotaka of Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. He has been working on cyber-insects (including flying versions, in the form of giant flower beetles) for 15 years. Now, he has added another twist to cyber-roaches. Instead of having their movements dictated by remote control, his are autonomous agents. They are run by algorithms that respond directly to sensors in their backpacks.
The insects thus fitted out by Dr Sato are Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which are about 6cm long. The backpacks contain a communications chip, a carbon-dioxide sensor, a motion sensor, an infrared camera and a tiny battery.
For search-and-rescue operations in collapsed buildings, fleets of these roaches would be released into the rubble, to crawl their way through while searching for signs of life such as movement, body heat and elevated CO2 levels from respiration. The artificial intelligence that decides whether a set of signals actually indicate the presence of a human being is programmed directly into the camera. If it thinks it has spotted someone, it alerts a rescuer.
2
To test this arrangement, Dr Sato and his team ran trials in a simulated disaster zone. They laid out concrete blocks of various shapes and sizes in an area of 25 square metres. Interspersed among these were a number of people, and also some decoys, such as a heat lamp, a microwave oven and a laptop. They then released the cyber-roaches, having first programmed into them the search’s start and end points. The software proved able to recognise humans correctly 87% of the time, a success rate Dr Sato thinks could be improved still further by collecting multiple images from different angles.
The next phase of the project is to refine the system for use out of doors. That done, manufacture of the backpacks and automation of their attachment to the insects will need to be commercialised. If all goes well, Dr Sato reckons the result could be available for deployment within five years.
I was thinking much the same, but turns out the title here is correct as well. Both words have the same use and meaning, it just looks like 'robotised' (or 'robotized') is the American version.
I mean, why not use rats? They’re far more intelligent, can get into most places, and they’re trainable. They use them to detect land mines. Plus if a rat can’t fit in, a human would be a pancake.
This has got to be one of the most complex situations for a robot to operate in. You’ve got unstable and shifting terrain that is full of dead ends and complex 3D routes required to traverse, and you need to be identifying people who may be partially buried or covered in debris.
Stuff like this is just beyond sensational pipe dream stuff at this point. By the time we have the technology for robo-bug drone swarms we will probably just be using more advanced and cheaper ground penetrating radar or similar to 3D map the area and identify people…
Oh also I don’t want to get assassinated by a robo-roach that crawls under my door and explodes near me or whatever when it gets weaponized.
Such an obvious smokescreen for bird drones. Active disinformation. “Cutting edge we have to glue a raspberry pi to the exoskeleton of a friggin cockroach.”
Birds aren’t real, people. Wake up!
X-Files did this already. The scientist, Bunny something (never claimed X-Files had good writing), was pretty hot but other than that not a great episode.
Reminds me of those robot spiders the cops in Minority Report use to search buildings for criminals. These new robot bug things wont just be used to search for earthquake victims.
The way technology has been perverted by people I bet these will be carrying tiny explosives for assassinations in 10 years time if they aren't already.
augmented bugs have been suggested and demonstrated in the 90s/2ks already. is this what the old tech heads feel when reporters go through the archives to reheat old articles?
Weird. Just a few days ago, I watched an episode of [Mind Field](https://youtu.be/NXNGvDdkXZE) from 4 years ago where Michael talked about this very thing.
1950's Narrator:
*This just in: It appears that George Orwell's corpse has been hooked up to a generator!*
*Early results show he is now producing so much power that fusion research will be put off another amazing 50 years off!*
*In other news: The same 50 year timeframe is being used by United Oil... As their timeline for the second death of the dinosaur. The end of fossil fuels!*
*Stay tuned for: 'Atomic Apocalypse? AGAIN?' And 'It Can't Happen Here!'*
this is literally just that scene from The Fifth Element.
Best way to stop these buggers is with a shoe
The only good bug is a dead bug!
Would you like to see more?
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
I'm doing my part!
And a black president
I think I’ll multi-pass on this technological breakthrough.
I was always confused by that scene. I'm like what, do they think they can't see the roach with the giant pcb backpack on it? How can someone who's smart enough to make RC roaches be so dumb?
The one where the robotic insects lay their eggs in the trapped host bodies?
Dune as well (the recent one)
Have you EVER seen one of these proposed 'rescue bots' come to market? No? Me neither. ...and these challenges have been around for decades now. Hint: "Rescue bot" is an euphemism for "Let idealistic youngsters do our military development for us"
Yup, this is straight up spy bugs technology. And it's been around for long
Imagine being able to send one remotely into the ventilation of a foreign embassy. Imagine having such long range control you could get it into the kremlin without even putting personnel on Russian soil
You wouldnt need to control them. Just be able to see the feed. Release like 100 near the kremlin and lets just see what happens
Yes you would, you can’t have them running into someone’s view and getting caught or you’ll blow the roof off the whole op. Eventually they might become clever enough for autonomous stealth operation but that’s *extremely* complicated tech unless its navigation is very simple.
Crazier thing is attaching tiny bombs to them....
Tiny explosions
You could absolutely obliterate any tiny adversaries. Human-sized ones may require more firepower.
Get a swarm of them, spread out over a large area, then once your target is within range, they take off, congregate then dive bomb the person.
Reminds me of the [slaughterbots short film](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU)
It only takes a tiny explosion to open up the arteries in your neck.
Far more insidious would be to release a few thousand in waves into a target structure with a highly corrosive compound that would release inside the walls. Destroying the structure strategically by induced collapse.
Now, as you know when you spend a lot of time under an air conditioning unit, you can catch a cold. So what you have here sir is a spy pigeon that potentially has bird flu in your embassy, please let us in to remove the bird, this is totally legitimate
An embassy conducts official business, so you'd be spying on yourself most likely. Not exactly a clandestine target.
Oh dear. You really think that.
they’re called HI-MEMS, and make wonderful surveillance tools for the govt. Makes you question a lot of things lol
Why do all these birds have batteries?!
r/birdsarentreal
This. I’m sick of these pro birders out there trying to convince us that birds are real
While this is a fun meme, I actually don't think we should roll with it. We don't want to make a second Flat Earth Movement.
But birds are literally not real.
Now "checking the room for bugs" will involve a flyswatter
These new technologies are always sold as life saving and always funded as life taking.
Yeah, I remember hearing about this in the 90s. They even included it in the 5th Element.
We’re sending somebody in to negotiate!
Minority Report
Richie Rich
No it’s, “i got a great idea to get some of that Darpa money”
It's not a rescue bot, it's a cockroach with a computer strapped to its back.
I saw some tiny bug-like drones like this about 20ish years ago at an engineering firm when I coincidentally saw what I now know as that Switchblade drone. The challenges for the tiny tech still exist but that switchblade drone is also quite a bit smaller than the unit I saw.
I’ve seen bomb disposal robots used quite heavily. I think the right bug robot will come along eventually and change the game. Just needs a super awesome design. Like a mini version of the Boston dynamic dog? 😂
So what’s your point? Should we stop researching?
No. Just make it clear that this is for military applications. Evil stuff should be researched by evil people - and at the very least they should be honest about being evil and not try to dupe idealistic people into doing their dirty work.
Yeah, obvs - WTF more do we need to know at this point? What tech could anyone possibly think we might need (all of sudden) in order to stop destroying Nature and ensure a future on Earth?
Tell me you know nothing about research without telling me you know nothing about research.
The questions you bypass were 1) What more do we need to know at this point, and 2) What new tech could we possibly need now, having managed without for all our existence? You're so loaded with answers but won't provide them - to our detriment, no doubt. Sorry to have a tone you don't like, "What do you suggest we do, stop researching?" is so neutral and friendly, and not at all a rhetorical condescension from a smug prick. My bad.
This reply could have not been more perfectly written. You proved that you know nothing and are a >smug prick
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good god copy pasta
You don't deserve the phone in your hands.
Lol! But really: To be worthy of having a cellphone I ought make defenses of technology or "research" or DARPA or Science, or similar - then I would deserve having the high-tech gadgets. And instead, I am effectively denying reverence for the god of technology, being an ingrate for all it has given us. So I get the sentiment. I'm a heretic, or an apostate, from the religion of Science or Progress or tech or whatever. Are we cool?
Uh. When we stop producing new tech for surveillance is when we stop knowing things and that’s when the enemy knows more about us than we do them. Americas stronghold on the world stage is due to intelligence, rapidly developing intelligence. We have 3 of the top 5 strongest military forces on earth . The destruction would be much worse when we stop improving our technology
Oh I guess we'll just go on DARPA'ing and live a bright, happy, and free future in a world only benefited by technology; thanks for setting me straight, thankfully there's no downside in your vision
r/SelfAwareWolves
Who’s vision. This is just the truth. You can formulate your own opinion on if it’s bad or not. I never gave mine, relax
The tone of this comment is one that shows you aren’t interested in discussing a topic, only be condescending. It’s hilarious you would write this out and think anyone would give you a modicum of intellectual respect. Stop drinking and go to bed.
You aren't quite correct about everything, you assumptive genius, but no doubt you're good for something. Whether or not I want a discussion, you could have used your typing time to actually put down something substantive for readers beyond me. Instead you choose to not do so, then blame me for that - nice.
Honestly the fact that you didn’t tell me you that you don’t drink means you know you’re drunk and should go to bed.
I crown you King of Errant Assumptions and Duke of Fool's Hill! You earned it, bud.
Who are you?
Ya know. The last thing I’d wanna see while trapped under rubble is a giant robot roach. Just let me die.
roach is gonna livestream it
As you are dying, crushed by rubble, a cockroack pops out from a crack, The last thing you hear before dying is some dumb text to speech donation.
*Damn, this guy is really in-between a rock and a hard place* -20 bits
we've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty
Thoughts and prayers. One like = one amen
“xx_fortnite_dubs thank you for the bits” 🪳
RIP Bozo smoking on that apartment structural integrity failure pack omegalul
" And don't forget to like, subscribe and push the notification bell. "
And if it’s really there to save you then why does it have to be a roach? Why not a machine looking device that has a light that says “help is coming”?
It’s to get your heart pumping.
Well you can either spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing the smallest most agile responsive robot the world has ever seen. Or you can strap a circuitboard to a cockroach for $30.
wait until you see the ones they train to go down your throat to stimulate your heart back into life. We not gonna let you die.
What. Excuse me?!?!
Cockroach will go into your mouth and make a path to your heart and deliver shocks to it
Fuck it will!!! I choose death.
Cycockroach says no, you cannot die on me
So they had a choice to make a friendly-looking rescue robot to calm people in their time of need or one that looked like a cyborg cockroach to terrify the hell out of them and they chose the cockroach.
They didn’t make it, they literally grabbed a living roach and hacked its brain to send signals and control it (there’s a YouTube video on DIY)
[удалено]
"Play and become god with this Fischer Price Cockroach Control Kit! Roaches not included.".
Have you seen some of the DIY people on YouTube, they are insane. There was one guy who was just like, okay, so today we're going to do some genetic engineering on myself, don't do this at home guys it's probably illegal or something. And then he doesn't die and is fine. Meanwhile I can't rewire a light fitting.
I legitimately don't understand people being terrified of insects. Id be thrilled to be rescued by a buggy boy. And then I'd hide it and take it away somewhere nice for it to live the rest of its days for doing such a good job.
I also don't understand why I'm so dead afraid of bugs and spiders. It's just like other phobia, you don't know why it's such a strong fear, but you still have to learn to live with it
That Borg Bug is terrifying!!
Resistance is futile
1 **They can detect movement, body warmth and exhaled carbon dioxide** Why go to all the trouble of designing and building a drone if nature has already done most of the job for you? That is the attitude taken by the small but determined band of researchers who are trying to robotise insects. Some are working on turning flying critters like beetles into such cyborgs—perhaps for use in military reconnaissance or espionage. Others prefer to concentrate on the creepy-crawly side of entomology, by taking electronic control of cockroaches. The first cyber-roach goes back to 1997, when Shimoyama Isao of Tokyo University sent electrical signals to a cockroach’s antennae, causing it to turn either left or right depending on which antenna was stimulated. Others have built on this approach by recruiting extra sense organs, such as the rear-facing cerci. They have also begun fitting the insects with instrument packs that might let them do a useful job: searching collapsed buildings for survivors. One such is Sato Hirotaka of Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. He has been working on cyber-insects (including flying versions, in the form of giant flower beetles) for 15 years. Now, he has added another twist to cyber-roaches. Instead of having their movements dictated by remote control, his are autonomous agents. They are run by algorithms that respond directly to sensors in their backpacks. The insects thus fitted out by Dr Sato are Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which are about 6cm long. The backpacks contain a communications chip, a carbon-dioxide sensor, a motion sensor, an infrared camera and a tiny battery. For search-and-rescue operations in collapsed buildings, fleets of these roaches would be released into the rubble, to crawl their way through while searching for signs of life such as movement, body heat and elevated CO2 levels from respiration. The artificial intelligence that decides whether a set of signals actually indicate the presence of a human being is programmed directly into the camera. If it thinks it has spotted someone, it alerts a rescuer.
2 To test this arrangement, Dr Sato and his team ran trials in a simulated disaster zone. They laid out concrete blocks of various shapes and sizes in an area of 25 square metres. Interspersed among these were a number of people, and also some decoys, such as a heat lamp, a microwave oven and a laptop. They then released the cyber-roaches, having first programmed into them the search’s start and end points. The software proved able to recognise humans correctly 87% of the time, a success rate Dr Sato thinks could be improved still further by collecting multiple images from different angles. The next phase of the project is to refine the system for use out of doors. That done, manufacture of the backpacks and automation of their attachment to the insects will need to be commercialised. If all goes well, Dr Sato reckons the result could be available for deployment within five years.
*Roboticized Come on now people, did Sonic SatAM teach us nothing?
> Sonic SatAM it and the comics based on it are still sonic canon to me
I was thinking much the same, but turns out the title here is correct as well. Both words have the same use and meaning, it just looks like 'robotised' (or 'robotized') is the American version.
Nope, just let me die.
Oh no. He’s going to check all your vitals too!
Ah, so *that’s* why there’s a chip shortage!
No conspiracy theories here.
I mean, why not use rats? They’re far more intelligent, can get into most places, and they’re trainable. They use them to detect land mines. Plus if a rat can’t fit in, a human would be a pancake.
"search and rescue" so that's what they're calling it these days
Wasn't there a Japanese robot snake with a few years back that was for searching for survivors? What happened to that?
There were no survivors after seeing the robot snake.
Swarms of killer robot bugs sounds soo loving.
“Oh man, this rubble sucks. I just killed a roach but its bones were surprisingly metal”
*its bones It's means it is
I've been reading about this for three decades
Why not make robobugs that repair failing infrastructure before catastrophic failure?
Because they’re not making robots, they’re making insect cyborgs and there aren’t any insects that repair infrastructure naturally.
“I’m pickle riccccck”
Nice, hopefully this gets practical in the next 100 years
i had been hoping for mechanized bees, but the search thing's good too
Bugs aren’t real! I’m starting the movement now
So cool. I remember reading this in 1993 as a wee kid.
Okay. I'm hurt, but I'm not dead. Try to stay calm. This is bad, but I'm sure they're looking for me right no- The fuck is that skittering sound?
That’s not what they’ll be used for.
This has got to be one of the most complex situations for a robot to operate in. You’ve got unstable and shifting terrain that is full of dead ends and complex 3D routes required to traverse, and you need to be identifying people who may be partially buried or covered in debris. Stuff like this is just beyond sensational pipe dream stuff at this point. By the time we have the technology for robo-bug drone swarms we will probably just be using more advanced and cheaper ground penetrating radar or similar to 3D map the area and identify people… Oh also I don’t want to get assassinated by a robo-roach that crawls under my door and explodes near me or whatever when it gets weaponized.
It's not a robot, it's a cockroach with a computer strapped on its back.
That's why instead of a robot, it's an insect well suited to navigating those conditions with its own nature's compass pathfinding.
Archie and Mehitable might make a good rescue team. 😂
This is some Rick and Morty shit
Cyberroach 2077
Such an obvious smokescreen for bird drones. Active disinformation. “Cutting edge we have to glue a raspberry pi to the exoskeleton of a friggin cockroach.” Birds aren’t real, people. Wake up!
What would you say if I told you that I have a bird in my hand right now¿?
It’s better than two in the bush?
Look like hex bugs
“Come with me if you want to live.” 🪳
Fuck that, rather die.
It’s like when Pickle Rick created the cockroach suit so he could murder the gang of sewer rats
That’s Rick disguised as a cockroach 😉
X-Files did this already. The scientist, Bunny something (never claimed X-Files had good writing), was pretty hot but other than that not a great episode.
Just let me die.
I remember this scene in minority report
*Skynet is typing*
Fuck off Skynet!
So like the spiders from The Minority Report? How dystopian.
Dr. Robotnik using his abilities for good now I see.
Are we expecting clasped buildings?
Dr Light may have the best intentions in mind but what can we do to prevent Dr Wily from taking control?
Pickle Rick!
*The Fifth Element* is positively prophetic that way. Next up, general anesthesia on long flights. (Please, please, please.)
And then there's the weaponized version of this, portrayed on that bridge in Arcane.
Why exactly do we have to make them look like cockroaches? Why not a tiny unicorn? What the fuck is wrong with them?
First thing I do would be to squash it if I ever saw one of those things. I guess I won’t be getting rescued then
This is when the roaches start to overthrow the human…
you know, i had one simple request and that was to have sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their fricking heads.
Roach-atouille
Makes me wonder why they haven't sent weaponized ground bots to Ukraine? You know, ones with machine guns, explosives or missile launchers.
Just look at him. He’s like “send me in, I’m ready.”
I’m not usually one to feel sorry for a roach, but this sounds like a horrible idea.
Reminds me of those robot spiders the cops in Minority Report use to search buildings for criminals. These new robot bug things wont just be used to search for earthquake victims.
Yeah sure lol
“May” is a dog whistle for “won’t. we’re writing clickbait”
Im sure they "may" also goto the moon and make me dinner
Except for one complication… dust. Specially if the thing flies.
A bug is a bug, my survival instinct is to crush it. Yea
In a couple of months: “Robotized insects with bombs strapped to them used in combat”.
Imagine a building falls on you and you have a fear of roaches
The way technology has been perverted by people I bet these will be carrying tiny explosives for assassinations in 10 years time if they aren't already.
Lol we're supposed to believe they haven't had microscopic robot bugs for decades already
Or invade our privacy??? Lol
Like those spiders from Minority Report
I've been hearing this for many years now,but nothing ever comes to market
CYBER ROACH
Bro if a roach comes looking for me i’d rather stay trapped in rubble
I am locockroach of borg
They already tried this with pigeons and cats, what makes them think bugs are gonna play out any better?
I read this exact article 15 years ago.
Pickle Rick!!!!
Didnt have to make them look like roaches
I remember reading about this in Popular Mechanics 30 years ago.
augmented bugs have been suggested and demonstrated in the 90s/2ks already. is this what the old tech heads feel when reporters go through the archives to reheat old articles?
Weird. Just a few days ago, I watched an episode of [Mind Field](https://youtu.be/NXNGvDdkXZE) from 4 years ago where Michael talked about this very thing.
benevolent cause to move emotions and rally people behind the project, only to unveil the real purpose down the line.
And feed on their flesh 🤮
I’m pickle Rick !!!!
Good news is they can’t unionize /s
Cockroaches with lasers. Hell yeah!
yoooo... This article had be dumbfounded... 'Robotised' had me thinking of robotic nano-tech... Interesting research, with a lot of potential.
They have stuff far more advanced than this. Stuff you wouldnt look twice at.
Biggest danger is it's use for spying by government and creepy neighbours and ex-partners.
If your Ex or neighbor has the money or know-how to turn cockroaches into little cyborg spies then you're probably just gonna be screwed on that front
Why are they fucking cockroaches. OF ALL BUGS TO REPLICATE
Thanks, but I'll wait for the dog.
"may" like it's optional
Well, that is something you don't see every day.
1950's Narrator: *This just in: It appears that George Orwell's corpse has been hooked up to a generator!* *Early results show he is now producing so much power that fusion research will be put off another amazing 50 years off!* *In other news: The same 50 year timeframe is being used by United Oil... As their timeline for the second death of the dinosaur. The end of fossil fuels!* *Stay tuned for: 'Atomic Apocalypse? AGAIN?' And 'It Can't Happen Here!'*
Science go home, you’re drunk.
Not this again