An international team of scientists has created cyborg cockroaches, with electronics wired to their nervous systems that allow them to be remote controlled. The researchers fitted wireless control ...

Much to the annoyance of home-owners everywhere, cockroaches are amazingly tough, and they’re able to squeeze into remarkably small spaces. These are some of the same qualities that researchers would ...

If you thought the new icons in iOS 7 were nauseating, then try this one on for size: It’s the RoboRoach, a kit that turns any cockroach into a cyborg you can control from your iPhone. Ugh. Weirder ...

Proving once again that this is Luc Besson’s world, and we’re just living in it, the world has moved one step closer to the Fifth Element. That’s right, remote-controlled cockroaches. The iBionicS Lab ...

What DARPA does with animal test subjects behind closed doors is one thing, but here we have something else entirely: mad-scientist kits that allow anyone at home to control the movement of a ...

Robots inspired by the animal kingdom are nothing new. But what about tiny creatures bio-engineered to become, essentially, machines? That's the weird premise behind a new experiment from researchers ...

Given a box full of cockroaches, the first thing most of us would do is try to locate the nearest source of fire. Lucky for the roaches, the team over at Backyard Brains look at things a bit ...

Scientists have outfitted a cockroach with a high-tech backpack that allows them to remotely control where it scurries. While the concept may sound terrifying, anyone buried alive under rubble in an ...