SWARM Biotactics, a German company, is fitting cockroaches with tiny backpacks to enable the insects to be used for reconnaissance missions.

CEO Stefan Wilhelm told CBS the choice of insect was deliberate. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is large enough to carry small payloads, resilient under extreme conditions, ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have unleashed an army of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches to swarm a target in a sandy test area. The motivation behind the ...

In an experiment out of The Terminator, scientists released a hoard of 20 cyborg cockroaches into a sandy artificial desert. Each live insect wore a tiny computer backpack that could control and steer ...

A swarm of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target location while avoiding obstacles and each other. Researchers say such swarms could be contained inside large robots and ...

Germany's defense ministry is now funding tests to see if hissing cockroaches from Madagascar can be used as reconnaissance drones on the battlefield. It sounds like something out of a futuristic ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University finally have a use for insect brain-jacking: use a swarm of cyborg cockroaches to map dangerous or uncertain areas like collapsed buildings. Could this ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) – Carolyn Weathers said she was coming home from work one night a few weeks back when she saw swarms of big black cockroaches emerging from a manhole and encroaching upon her ...