The guys at BackyardBrains certainly have a sense of humor. They know that their work, which focuses on reading and manipulating the brain waves of insects, can be seen as anything from cruel to ...

Cyborg cockroaches equipped with Bluetooth backpacks are being used at Marquette University to teach neuroscience to students. In the upper-level biology course, students and staff utilize a product ...

There is an app for everything. Even for controlling you personal cyborg cockroach. Backyard Brains crowdfunded their app RoboRoach that allows you to electrify the nerves in a cockroach's antennae, ...

Just as I was sitting down to write this morning and thinking about all of the good things that are happening for nonhuman animals (animals) I received an email about an essay called "The ...

If you love great comics, there are tons of spectacular comics crowdfunding campaigns running now, including an anthology of horror comics and the omnibus edition of one of our favorite webcomic epics ...

Twitter Roach is a modification of RoboRoach, a device that controls cockroaches with remote control. RoboRoach controls movement by stimulating tactile sensations of cockroaches. (Please note the ...

Scientists are harnessing the power of motion-based gaming technology to drive cyborg cockroaches on autopilot, envisioning a future where the intrepid insects could be wired to survey a disaster zone ...