Not The Onion

19100 readers

1297 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

A German startup is turning cockroaches into cyborg spies (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Human operators can steer individual insects via controllers, but the company is also building software for autonomous swarming. Wilhelm said the goal is to use algorithms to coordinate dozens or potentially hundreds of biohybrid insects as a group. "With that algorithm we create, you can steer a whole swarm of insects towards a target. And that could be 10, that could be also, like, a hundred."

Thank you, I am going to have nightmares now.