Remote-controlled cars and airplanes are nothing new, but a North Carolina State University professor hopes his remote-controlled cockroaches catch on - not for entertainment, but as a way to save ...

While many people are working out how to genocide the cockroach population, a team of Japanese boffins are turning them into robot heros. Japanese researchers have discovered a way to mount solar ...

Living remote-control cockroaches are now a thing. They actually exist. Besides wowing people and sparking ethics debates, however, the cyborg insects may ultimately have some very worthwhile ...

Scientists have outfitted a cockroach with a high-tech backpack that allows them to remotely control where it scurries. While the concept may sound terrifying, anyone buried alive under rubble in an ...

Have you ever wanted to control an army of cockroaches? We’ve all seen remote control cockroaches before — and they really are quite a fascinating specimen to work with — but did you know you can ...

Proving once again that this is Luc Besson’s world, and we’re just living in it, the world has moved one step closer to the Fifth Element. That’s right, remote-controlled cockroaches. The iBionicS Lab ...

What DARPA does with animal test subjects behind closed doors is one thing, but here we have something else entirely: mad-scientist kits that allow anyone at home to control the movement of a ...

That’s almost all that needs to be said, but since North Carolina State University sent an entire news release about that topic, might as well get past the “yuck” and on to the “wow.” Researchers are ...

The Twitter Roach is a new project by artist Brittany Ransom which takes your everyday cockroach and turns it into a tweet-controlled robot. “At what point does its intelligence and ability take over?

The sight of a cockroach doesn't exactly give people the warm fuzzies. But with their uncanny ability to crawl through tiny cracks, up walls or even upside-down, they could be a big help in locating ...