Researchers Turn Cockroaches Into an Underwater Cyborg For Rescue Missions
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UbergizmoResearchers Turn Cockroaches Into an Underwater Cyborg For Rescue Missionsubergizmo.comResearchers at Nanyang Technological University and Waseda University have published a new Nature Communications study, dated June 29, 2026, showing that a Madagascar hissing cockroach fitted with a wearable oxygen-supplying suit can keep moving in water, or in oxygen-poor spaces, for up to three hours in controlled tests. That is the real advance here. Cyborg cockroaches are not new, and NTU’s lab has already shown how insect-based platforms could be guided […]
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