July 2012
Beginner
176 pages
7h 48m
English

Juan Leguizamon
Building your very own cockroach cyborgs.
You wake up with a desire to do some neural engineering. You open up your insect terrarium, bring out your pet flower beetle, your tobacco moth, or your cockroach, and turn on a switch on the insect’s back. With your remote control, you begin steering your insect around the room.
While this may sound like science fiction, remote controlled insects have been around for 15 years. Starting in the late 1990s, two groups of researchers (at the ...