Cyborg cockroaches stay charged by carrying tiny solar panels

Japan developed the system for remote control cyborg cockroaches, with wireless control module, rechargeable batteries and tiny solar cell.

An international team of researchers have refined a remote-control cyborg cockroach.

You can get down off the table – they’re not in the wild yet. But it’s reasonable to ask why they’d do such a thing.

It’s not because they have a nasty streak. Animals fitted with electronic devices can get into places that humans can’t go.

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Source: COSMOS

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