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PowerElectronix 4 hours ago [-]
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...
Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
f6v 4 hours ago [-]
It's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.
npmaker 3 hours ago [-]
It really depends on a person's moral qualms and how deeply they are felt.
For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release.
Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.
tryagainian 3 hours ago [-]
No more beer, wine, bread, or yogurt for you.
No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.
silver_silver 2 hours ago [-]
This argument is called reductio ad absurdum. It’s often used by people like you who want to prevent others from trying to be better.
alentred 1 hours ago [-]
It is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"
jdw64 6 hours ago [-]
Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that.
It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
matheusmoreira 3 hours ago [-]
Roach Ex. My exoskeleton is augmented.
coolness 4 hours ago [-]
The title says "hours-long diving" so at least a few hours i guess...
doublerabbit 4 hours ago [-]
I am unsure they really care how long it lasts especially when you create something like this.
As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up.
No more requirements for anchors.
frotaur 2 hours ago [-]
Not sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.
tda 44 minutes ago [-]
> ... oxygen generation mechanism of diving suit for cyborg cockroaches
An actual quote from a Nature article
notahan 5 hours ago [-]
Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!
abrugsch 2 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of the scene in The Fifth Element where Tricky is piloting a spy cockroach with a hilariously huge transmitter on it's back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxMpTeEf8Q
trhway 2 hours ago [-]
If you knew Russian you could enjoy the hysterics their propaganda were stoking in 2022-23 about alleged "combat mosquitos" the Ukrainians had developed. According to the propaganda the mosquitos were specifically able to target Russians based on DNA (interesting that according to the same propaganda Russians and Ukrainians are the same people - how poor mosquitos were supposed to distinguish between Russians and Ukrainians the propaganda didn't specify though)
JonathanRaines 3 hours ago [-]
I hope they don't start bugging our homes.
swader999 1 hours ago [-]
This is the kind of Science I'd expect a 12 year old boy to come up with given unlimited funding.
CompoundEyes 3 hours ago [-]
A related article and the language used to describe the creature matches
> Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform
Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release.
Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.
No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.
It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up.
No more requirements for anchors.
An actual quote from a Nature article
> Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1