Cyber Spy Moths
DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — is engaged in some , er, creative work. Specifically, they’re working on developing “brain-chipped cyborg moths.” No really. I think. It’s called the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project.
The chips are implanted in the moths in the pupa stage and are used for … something. Rod Brooks of MIT’s computer science and artifical intelligence lab explains that,”A bunch of experiments have been done over the past couple of years where simple animals, such as rats and cockroaches, have been operated on and driven by joysticks, but this is the first time where the chip has been injected in the pupa stage and ‘grown’ inside it. “Once the moth hatches, machine learning is used to control it.”
The story is here.
It’s not April Fools in June Day is it?
