Comments on: Radio controlled beetle flight footage

By: wosser

wosser — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:53:49 +0000

I was very dissapointed, I was hoping to see a small, German rear-engined car with a jet engine and a few servos on it.

By: 0x808080

0x808080 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:42:49 +0000

Someone mentioned testing on prisoners… how do you know this beetle hasn’t dont some horrific things in its life? Things that would land a human being in jail…

By: Phrog

Phrog — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:20:24 +0000

Absolutely amazing!

By: Dr. Beedor

Dr. Beedor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:49:17 +0000

As a trained and certified beetle doctor, I find this extremely repulsive. Do you know how many beetles have come to me with holes in their heads?

By: monkeyslayer56

monkeyslayer56 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:05:16 +0000

@Napalm PETA=people eating taesty anamals :)
btw cool untill they do it to people…

By: yep

yep — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:07 +0000

forget cyborg beetles…this only leads to armys of unwilling cyborg soldiers

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:04:48 +0000

You’ve obviously missed all the previous work on this sort of thing where flies had their heads semi-seperated from their bodies, rotated 180 degrees and bonded back on to see if they got confused and flew left when they meant to go right…

By: razor386

razor386 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:35:17 +0000

I would be alot more impressed if they could control the beetle with RF radiation hitting the bug, instead of the lobotomy style they did here.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:47:01 +0000

What they need to do instead of stopping and starting flight is to get the beetle to change altitude on command. Then you’d have some real control instead of just left and right.

By: T&P

T&P — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:27:14 +0000

This is stupid that people are putting money into this and why does the military always want stupid sci-fi shit and not go after REAL stuff or why government will spend time on useless research and not REAL research with NASA?
don’t give a damn about the bug but I would like to see it give twitter updates of what commands it was being given!

By: draeath

draeath — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:07:12 +0000

alpha: it’s neuroscience, not just robotics.

Patrick: yea, if we knew enough about how it all works to do that, we would. We’re learning the fundamentals right now, and these beetles have very simple (comparatively) systems.

You know how nice it is to have modern medicine? Now, do you know what kind of horrors preceded it (by necessity)?

As well Patrick. At what point does it become cruel? What about the trillions upon trillions of microorganisms we abuse all the time?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:04:23 +0000

Ah man, if we humans kill each other, the insects will probably take over the world. Let’s get ‘em now we still can. :P

By: bLuRrEdMaN

bLuRrEdMaN — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:52:58 +0000

this is cruel. i’m just as much a tech fan as the next guy but there’s gotta be a better way than carving up living creatures. surely you don’t have to be a PETA card carrier to see that??

By: bfo

bfo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:32:16 +0000

KILL THE SKYNET!!!!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:17:22 +0000

Sorry, not a fan of animal testing of any type. If you’re gonna test hings, strap it to prisoners and see if it works.