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An international group of bioengineers has been able to establish how one of the muscles located on the wings of insects functions. It turns out that this muscle plays a major role in turning insect in flight to the right or left. Thanks to this, scientists made of bronze beetles, or Mecynorrhina torquata, “cyborgs” and began to control their movement from a distance using a special a backpack on the back of insects.
The backpack-design was quite weighty (about 1.2 grams), therefore, scientists conducted experiments exclusively on large bronzes.
Beetle and microchip muscles were controlled by a special software package. Biologists managed to make insects fly, turn left and right and hang in one place.
One of the participants in this experiment is Hirotaka Sato (Hirotaka Sato), a scientist from Nanyang University of Singapore, says: insect backpack, you can add a small microphone or a sensor heat and use similar cyborg beetles in rescue operations. With this technology you can easily inspect various inaccessible places, in particular small clefts, and also cracks in the walls of collapsed buildings.
Engineers of the German company “Festo” developed bionic insect robots.
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