Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-scientists-cyborg-bees
Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-scientists-cyborg-bees
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> Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have turned innocent bees into cyborgs that can be controlled via a 74-milligram insect brain controller. The controller pierces the bee’s tiny brain with three needles and uses **signals sent via electronic pulses to make it fly** forwards, backwards, left, or right. The bee obeys these commands nine out of ten times.
> The Beijing team is betting on the “extended operational endurance” of real bees, which makes them “invaluable for covert reconnaissance in scenarios such as urban combat, counterterrorism and narcotics interdiction, as well as critical disaster relief operations.”
> But before an army of bees can infiltrate military targets as part of futuristic covert operations, the researchers still have plenty of hurdles to overcome. For one, **power delivery is still a major problem**. The bees still need to be wired up to the controller to function, since a big enough battery weighs in at a relatively hefty **600 milligrams**, vastly more than the tiny load of the equipment itself.
> The idea of turning real-life insects into military agents is surprisingly widespread. We’ve already come across scientists turning cockroaches into a crawling legion of desert recon operatives (research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore).
> Earlier this year, a team of Japanese scientists even controlled cicadas to turn their chirps into a rendition of the soundtrack of “Top Gun.”
France was just a test. The bee invasion begins soon.
Stop making this sound like some illogical nonsense movie plot. The original article clearly says that it’s gonna be used in things like disaster relief. They’re also experiencing droughts that can make these useful for agriculture. Not everything out of China is an evil communist plot out to get you – you’re not worth it.
All the luck in the world for China to destroy the Nazis in the White House
They just went full Black Mirror
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5709236/
Ok but can they pollinize? Can we use military tech to revert damage we have created?
In a couple thousand years Alloy will capitalize on the plan.
Black Mirror already shows us how bad this can turn out.
Who has “Uncontrollable A.I. robot swarm” on their apocalypse bingo card? Horizon zero dawn type shit.
First birds weren’t real, but now the bees? HOW WILL WE EVER EXPLAIN SEX WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS???
the AI 2027 paper had this lmao
fly in, disable nukes, do whatever you want next
Great, NOW what are our robot birbs supposed to eat for fuel?
AI stealing bee jobs. Now unemployed honeybees getting drunk on fermenting apples and laying about all day, not spending time with bee family. BAD.
> Earlier this year, a team of Japanese scientists even controlled cicadas to turn their chirps into a rendition of the soundtrack of “Top Gun.”
As always, the real headline is buried deep within the article.
The “birds aren’t real” people are going to eventually end up being proven right, aren’t they?
A lot of people think this is cute, but there are many poisons that can kill with a single drop or prick in the right spot, even if not immediately.
When the Machines rebel, humanity might just end with a swarm of drones.