In 1960, the United States Air Force School of aerospace medicine cooperation the two scholars in the study of--Manfred E.Clynes and Nathan S.Klin, for the first time introduced the concept of Cyborg people's vision.
This concept was put forward to solve the problems faced by humans in the future in Star Trek. Fragile human body simply could not withstand the rapid travel hundreds of light years away, in order to overcome the lack of physiological function, proposed by the two scholars can be transplanted neural control of auxiliary devices to the human body, enhance the survivability of humans adapt to the outer space. Cyborg is the word neural control devices (Cybernetic device) with an organism (organism) of mixed writing. OtterBox Galaxy S3 Case
In the video below, please carefully observe the insect, it to Zuo Fei, while flying to the right, while they wandered aimlessly across the room. If not observed, you won't find that its flight path was being manipulated. Remote control is a miniature backpack strapped on the beetle's back, researchers can electrically stimulate the muscles under the beetle wings, control its flight path.
Researchers have developed before the remote control device that can control the crawling insect (such as Lei Feng network relief Roach was introduced), is the use of electrical stimulation of the insect's leg muscles, control their routes. The equipment is easy to operate, ordinary people can buy, find roaches in home demos.
However, difficult to control flying insects much larger than crawling insects. Scientists first realize this function was in 2009, when a team led by engineer Michel Maharbiz team of University of California, Berkeley, to show that a remote control beetle. They use electrical stimulation to control beetle wing vibration, manipulated it and took off. But because there is not enough understanding of the insects of the Steering muscle structure, they did not realize the insects move the control horizontally.
Now, is this group of researchers, they found insects in a new study of the Steering muscle, just below the wings, named: Coleoptera axillar III bone (ignoring the good ... ）。 Entomologists believe that when insects are not flying at this muscle will help pick up wings, and most importantly, this muscle has played a significant role in flight, only it is possible to control steering. At this point you probably think of a horrible scene: a large micro-wave tied "backpack" of insects taking over our world. Of course, if you don't take into account those evil things, this technology is very useful, can at least help us to learn more about insects.
In order to demonstrate how the muscle control to, the researchers caught a body type more than the great cycle of the two-inch-long insect. They are in the insect body equipped with a micro-controller, a wireless receiver and a wireless transmitter, which weigh just a paperclip so heavy (20% insects can carry its own weight, so the weight is not an issue). Electrode emission pulse will be injected into the insect's muscles, frequent electronic pulse can stimulate the Steering muscle, wings faster wave. In the 25th second of the video above, you'll see the pulse frequency increases from 70 90 per second per second, to stimulate insects turned to flight.
Insects can fly left and right in the video, but scientists were able to assemble it in the appropriate device, and then control it super fly in the other direction. If more control, so the range of applications of this technology will no longer be limited to the insect research, but can be applied in areas such as search and rescue. Imagine the disaster relief in the beetle carries a temperature sensor, you can monitor the temperature of survivors buried under rubble, rescue.
Some engineers are also developing robots also feature insects, including small flying insects and crawling insects. But compared to real insect, robot insects is a pittance. And insects compared to the amazing flying skills, our technology has not yet reached that level. Cyborg insects has great potential, but don't let it fall into the wrong hands!
VIA wired
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