What happens in the early days of organ development? How do a small group of cells organize to become a heart, a brain, or a kidney? This critical period of development has long remained the... Read more
Draper combines navigation and neuromodulation to guide insects The smallest aerial drones mimic insects in many ways, but none can match the efficiency and maneuverability of the dragonfly.... Read more
A KAIST research team presented a hybrid animal-robot interaction called “the parasitic robot system,” that imitates the nature relationship between parasites and host. The research team led... Read more
The smallest aerial drones mimic insects in many ways, but none can match the efficiency and maneuverability of the dragonfly. Now, engineers at Draper are creating a new kind of hybrid dron... Read more
A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in homeland... Read more
Our excitement with and rapid uptake of technology – and the growing opportunities for artificial brain enhancement – are putting humans more firmly on the path to becoming cyborgs, accordin... Read more
TAU researchers combine electronics with living tissues to create a self-regulating cardiac patch More than 25% of the people on the national US waiting list for a heart will die before rece... Read more
Research published recently in Science as Culture suggests that men are surprisingly positive and open to the concept of having cancer-detecting biosensors implanted within their bodies – ef... Read more
No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultraflexible circuits. Now taking th... Read more
Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials, but also give rise... Read more
Remotely controlled cockroaches Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments – such as collapsed buildings – based on... Read more
Cyborgs are truly a fundamental phenomenon in philosophical discussions. Cyborgs are gradually working their way into our lives. The general representation of a cyborg is that seen in scienc... Read more
