Send In the Cockroach Squad

Researchers have been working with tiny robots based on cockroaches as well as with actual roaches–controlled by an embedded chip–as a possible means of exploring collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Software uses cyborg swarm to map unknown environs

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments ? such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Software Uses Cyborg Swarm To Map Unknown Environs

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments ? such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Innovation or nightmare? Here come the cyborg-bugs

NC State researchers are looking to explore dangerous or other unknown spaces with the help of a swarm of insect cyborgs. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Meet new ‘cyborg roaches’

The cyborg bugs could give responders “a quick picture of the environment,” under conditions that may be dangerous or inaccessible to human rescuers. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Mapping Out The Unknown With Cyborg Bug Swarms

NC State researchers are looking to map tricky spaces, such as collapsed buildings, by letting a swarm of cyber cockroaches, dubbed biobots, explore such areas. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Cyborg swarm maps unknown environments

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments ? such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Cyborg Swarms to Make Maps

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Software uses cyborg swarm to map unknown environs

The cyborg bugs could give responders ‘a quick picture of the environment,’ under conditions that may be dangerous or inaccessible to human rescuers. Edgar Lobaton, electrical engineering, featured.

Software uses cyborg swarm to map unknown environs

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments ? such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Software uses cyborg swarm to map unknown environs

NC State researchers have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments ? such as collapsed buildings. Edgar Lobaton, Alper Bozkurt and Alireza Dirafzoon, electrical and computer engineering, featured.