Cyborg Moths

[rodin]

“Moths are creatures that need little food and can fly all kinds of places," he continued. "A bunch of experiments have been done over the past couple of years where simple animals, such as rats and cockroaches, have been operated on and driven by joysticks, but this is the first time where the chip has been injected in the pupa stage and ‘grown’ inside it.

“Once the moth hatches, machine learning is used to control it.”

Mr Brooks, who has worked on robotic technology for more than 30 years and whose company iRobot already supplies the US military with robots that defuse explosive devices laid by insurgents, said that the military would be increasingly reliant on ‘semi-autonomous’ devices, including ones which could fire.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle1831494.ece

When it gets to press either

1) It's never gonna happen (cancer cure for the masses)

or

2) They have already moved beyond (cloning)

[TonyGosling]

moved - intersting but not news