Military Develops ‘Cybug’ Spies

Charles Q. Choi
Live Science
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or “cybugs” that could work even better.

Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices.

The military and spy world no doubt would love tiny, live camera-wielding versions of Predator drones that could fly undetected into places where no human could ever go to snoop on the enemy. Developing such robots has proven a challenge so far, with one major hurdle being inventing an energy source for the droids that is both low weight and high power. Still, evidence that such machines are possible is ample in nature in the form of insects, which convert biological energy into flight.

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It makes sense to pattern robots after insects – after all, they must be doing something right, seeing as they are the most successful animals on the planet, comprising roughly 75 percent of all animal species known to humanity. Indeed, scientists have patterned robots after insects and other animals for decades – to mimic cockroach wall-crawling, for instance, or the grasshopper’s leap.

Mechanical metamorphosis

Instead of attempting to create sophisticated robots that imitate the complexity in the insect form that required millions of years of evolution to achieve, scientists now essentially want to hijack bugs for use as robots.

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12 Responses to “Military Develops ‘Cybug’ Spies”

1. used to be prud brit Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

   I HOPE THEY SEND ONE TO MY HOUSE SO I CAN SQUAT IT.

   IN FACT I KNOW ALREADY I`AM BEING SPIED ON

   SO A MESSAGE TO U

   F*** YOURSELVES

   

   ETs are here to help! Reply:
   July 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

   It’s Time To WAKE UP!
   If your feeling something’s just “not right” lately…our dead on! Our Federal Government is going for broke on a quick take over of the U.S. Republic. We are NOT a Democracy and never have been. It is a lie pushed through by the mass media. We were established as a Constitutional Republic, which respects individual State’s rights. Here is a place for information:
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2. Emmíd Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

   No thanks, I’ll chose as much activism as I can, while I can, then its time to move to central russia and live in a deep forest by myself and be free.
   No control grids for me.

3. mark Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

   the cemtrails would kills the bugs dont worry

   

   Artyom Reply:
   July 15th, 2009 at 5:32 am

   lol….

4. phatty ma Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

   there’s always this hornet hanging around my door. now i know why?

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   July 14th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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6. jimshores Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 8:10 pm

   This is more pure B.S. from Hollywood/DC. This fabrication, that anyone “old enough to carry money” will laugh at. The NWO got some prop maker from Hellywood to craft it to scare the ladies in the audience. The weak B>S> the NWO comes with nowadays gives me comfort knowing they are literally at the bottom of the barrel when recruiting talent. They are sooooooooo over!

7. Desma Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 7:00 am

   If the government listened in on our household, they were certainly be bored to death and would hear nothing but a lot of sermons. I could not care less if they are so bored that they have to spy on citizens, they are really afraid in the first place that they will not be able to accomplish what they want to do in cohorts with satan. He knows he is going to loose in the end.

   

   used to be proud brit Reply:
   July 15th, 2009 at 9:18 am

   YOU DON’T CARE IF YOUR SPIED ON ? YOUR A LOONY M8
   I DON`T TELL MY NEIGHBOURS MY BUSINESS , ITS THIS ATTITUDE THAT IS LETTING THE STATE RULE YOUR LIFE
   AND YOU ” OH IT DONT AFFECT ME I DONT CARE ”

   FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SHOP KEEPER – I SAID “NOTHING”

   THEN THEY CAME FOR THE MAN DOWN THE ROAD – I SAID “NOTHING”

   THEN THEY CAME FOR MY NEIGHBOUR – I SAID “NOTHING”

   THEN THE CAME FOR ME – AND THERE WASN`T ANYONE LEFT TO SAY ANYTHING

   SORT OUT YOUR F***ING ATTITUDE OR YOUR KIDS AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL INHERENT WHAT YOU COULD NOT BE BOTHERED WITH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8. wildcat Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 11:29 am

   Some time ago back in the mid-90’s, DARPA funded research into miniature flying craft. The final result was those miniature radio controlled helicopters that are sold for $25 in the shopping mall toy shops.

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