Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

PowerElectronix•about 2 hours ago

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?

f6v•about 1 hour ago

It's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.

npmaker•24 minutes ago

It really depends on a person's moral qualms and how deeply they are felt.

For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release.

Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.

tryagainian•22 minutes ago

No more beer, wine, bread, or yogurt for you.

No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.

CompoundEyes•32 minutes ago

A related article and the language used to describe the creature matches

> Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1

gregoryyy•18 minutes ago

Bill Gates at it again!!! Damn you Bill Gates, damn yoooooouuu...!

jdw64•about 4 hours ago

Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that.

It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077

matheusmoreira•22 minutes ago

Roach Ex. My exoskeleton is augmented.

coolness•about 1 hour ago

The title says "hours-long diving" so at least a few hours i guess...

doublerabbit•about 2 hours ago

I am unsure they really care how long it lasts especially when you create something like this.

As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up.

No more requirements for anchors.

frotaur•3 minutes ago

Not sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.

notahan•about 2 hours ago

Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!

JonathanRaines•about 1 hour ago

I hope they don't start bugging our homes.

sir_eliah•about 1 hour ago

Every day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.

alex_duf•41 minutes ago

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

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