• Researchers fitted Giant Burrowing Cockroaches with a removable navigation system that enables them to be remotely piloted through complex terrain and rubble
  • The size and strength of the cockroaches also allows them to carry cameras and miniature medical injectors to deliver supervised emergency care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, or caves
  • Researchers say the long-term vision is to deploy swarms of specialised cyborg insects to disaster sites, each performing complementary role
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[–] 12 points 2 months ago

Cool! Such a leap from the 2016 competition organised by CSIRO:

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/robotics/UAV-Challenge

Was leading the computer vision team for the robotics club at my uni for this one. Really interesting task; a bunch of subproblems related to sending drones like this out.

I bet Zipline has the state of the art in this kind of thing.

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