DARPA, creators of the Internet and other assorted crazy things is still up to its crazy games, but this time out in the Real World. The MIT AI Lab, in collaboration with DARPA, are doing research on…cyborg spy moths.
The ZDNet post points to this article on FoxNews (sourced on The Times), in which Rod Brooks, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, is quoted from a speech at the University of Southampton in England.
“Moths are creatures that need little food and
can fly all kinds of places,” he continued. “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.”
So…get rid of that moth, it may be watching you in return :)
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