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Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel
- jdw64 4mo agoLooking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that. It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
- doublerabbit 4mo agoI am unsure they really care how long it lasts especially when you create something like this. As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up. No more requirements for anchors.
- frotaur 4mo agoNot sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.
- coolness 4mo agoThe title says "hours-long diving" so at least a few hours i guess...
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoRoach Ex. My exoskeleton is augmented.
- AlbinoDrought 4mo agoUp in Canada, we had RoboRoach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRoach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRoach
- financetechbro 4mo agoSeems like the oxygen shell itself was just attached to the cockroach with adhesive, they were able to take it off afterwards. > After experiments, the shell can be removed and the membrane can be gently polished off to minimise any restrictions on the cockroach’s normal behaviour and daily activities. Four small dorsal openings were reserved for attaching the oxygen tubes, which were connected to the thoracic spiracles.
- slipperybeluga 4mo ago[dead]
- sir_eliah 4mo agoEvery day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.
- andrewflnr 4mo agoI think about Starfish's dead internet a lot now. Watts was really uncomfortably prescient.
- notahan 4mo agoOh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!
- JonathanRaines 4mo agoI hope they don't start bugging our homes.
- encrypted_bird 4mo agoYou joke, but...
- trhway 4mo agoIf you knew Russian you could enjoy the hysterics their propaganda were stoking in 2022-23 about alleged "combat mosquitos" the Ukrainians had developed. According to the propaganda the mosquitos were specifically able to target Russians based on DNA (interesting that according to the same propaganda Russians and Ukrainians are the same people - how poor mosquitos were supposed to distinguish between Russians and Ukrainians the propaganda didn't specify though)
- macintux 4mo agoI can't believe Russia even took that to the UN. Insane. https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov-responds-to-combat-mosquitoes-accusation https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov...
- fractallyte 4mo agoThis is a studied and documented propaganda tactic: flood the information space with conflicting accounts, in order to muddy the issue. This statement summarizes it nicely: "The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is to make you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing." https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1909932857948004738 https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1909932857948004738
- PowerElectronix 4mo agoFrom the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
- f6v 4mo agoIt's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.
- npmaker 4mo agoIt really depends on a person's moral qualms and how deeply they are felt. For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release. Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.
- lukan 4mo agoMost flies I kill, butterflies and wasps I usually guide out. But catching a insect and injecting electronic into it to force it to move where it does not want is kind of a very different thing to me.
- lmf4lol 4mo agoWhat is , in your moral judgement, the difference between a fly and butterlies and wasps? why kill one but guide out the other?
- lukan 4mo agoFlies fly on shit and bring that in the house. That is reason for me to not have mercy. They bring harm. Wasps do not bring harm to me, I know how to coexist with them, but if my kids are around, I will also kill them if they seem aggressive. So my ethics are very pragmatic.
- alex_duf 4mo agoJust because you can doesn't mean you should
- encrypted_bird 4mo agoExactly. THE COCKROACHES CAN ALREADY SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR. WHY DO THEY INSIST ON MAKING THEM _STRONGER_?!
- CompoundEyes 4mo agoA related article and the language used to describe the creature matches > Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1
- gregoryyy 4mo agoBill Gates at it again!!! Damn you Bill Gates, damn yoooooouuu...!
- alentred 4mo agoIt is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"
- BirAdam 4mo agoThey’d clearly decide that the cockroach was worshipped.
- ch4s3 4mo agoI dunno, probably had religious significance.
- proee 4mo agoMillions of years from now EVERYTHING will be some form of cyborg. So these cockroaches might be THE missing link of when computer and living species first started to merge.
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- swader999 4mo agoThis is the kind of Science I'd expect a 12 year old boy to come up with given unlimited funding.
- tda 4mo ago> ... oxygen generation mechanism of diving suit for cyborg cockroaches An actual quote from a Nature article
- txoria 4mo agoThe authors of the article deserve to get appropriate controllers inserted right up into their assholes, so they enjoy the operational range it gives to their fucking selves.
- UomoNeroNero 4mo agoyes, really.....
- ABNi 4mo agoA perfect 10 post. No notes.
- pvaldes 4mo agoJust what we need at this moment, the viruses and bacteria of hissing cockroaches entering into our valuable water sources so we can drink it, and maybe experience aquatic-park-fun mode in our intestines. Or even discover (who knows? microbiologists can dream) a new exciting pandemic, when two ecosystems that never evolved to be together meet each other? Imagine those giant marine viruses, now on our cricket bars and mosquitoes.