Researchers have managed to 'remote control' a beetle in Singapore. How? By sticking an electronic chip on the shell and connecting its antennas to direct it. Measuring 2.5 centimetres, the beetle has become the smallest robot-insect in the world according to the specialised magazine Soft Robotics.
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'This is the most recent version of the Zombiptera, a new order of insects that we have created, which are enslaved by experimentalists by means of an electronic device grafted to them', explained Alain Fraval, an entomologist in Opie- insects.
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