Watch as Frankenstein cyborg cockroaches fitted with backpacks come to life to form army of search & rescue bugs

This is the surreal moment when cybernetic cockroaches in the vein of Frankenstein come to life and assemble an army of insects.

Lachlan Fitzgerald, an Australian student at the University of Queensland, creates the controllable creatures by igniting their tiny circuit board backpacks on the animals.

In the eerie video, the nimble cockroaches can be seen scuttling across grass blades, their tiny legs scrambling over the uneven ground.

Lachlan is able to control their motions by sending electrical pulses to the antennae of the backpack-like apparatus.

The tech wizard can use the bug’s inherent agility to build a team of partially robotic and partially human search and rescue personnel.

Lachlan stated: In the future, when humans are unable to safety reach the scene of an urban tragedy, such as an earthquake or a bombing, a group of cyborg beetles will be able to swiftly and effectively navigate the area.

In contrast to an artificial robotic system, which must do a great bit of computation to handle all the various situations that could be presented to it in the actual world, insects are incredibly adaptive.

We only step in and tell it to go this way rather than the direction it was already going when it deviates from the intended course we want it to follow.

It is hoped that these devices would be able to find survivors in emergency situations and provide them with life-saving medications.

Before the work is put to any real use, experts are now working to improve it.

Although it would take some time, these little cockroaches might soon be saving lives.

According to Lachlan, the life expectancy of beetles with backpacks connected is normal.

“So I don’t think they mind, per se,” he added.

Whether or not they are truly sentient beings is up for debate.

Any reservations you may have about the field are, in my opinion, well outweighed by the technology’s ability to save lives in an urban disaster.

Native to Australia, burrowing cockroaches are a species that can reach a maximum size of 3 inches.

Around the world, they can be found in a range of habitats, including deserts and tropical savannas.

A SWARM OF SINGAPORE SAVIOURS

In April, The Sun published an article about the emergence of cyborg cockroaches.

Scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University showed off their ability to control and guide the animals.

At the time, they stated: “Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University researchers have shown that they are able to control and guide the animals.

This is because traditional robots are inherently limited in their ability to avoid collisions, adapt to unfamiliar settings, and maintain energy economy.

“This study suggests a way to get over these restrictions by combining live insects with tiny electrical controllers to allow for programmable control that resembles robotics and by putting forward a unique swarming control algorithm.

“Although these creatures, called cyborg insects, have the ability to instinctively avoid collisions with neighbors and obstacles while adapting to complex terrains, there is a lack of literature on the control of multi-cyborg systems.”

They mounted tiny computers on each of the 20 animals in Madagascar to test their design.

The swarm was then simultaneously managed by scientists, who forced it to ascend a sandy slope.

One cockroach was discovered to take charge of the group.

It is still claimed that the cockroaches may defy orders and navigate a barrier on their own.

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