Everyone's heard the pop culture myth that cockroaches are virtually indestructible and will be the only animals to survive ...

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9’s tips forum. This week, we’ve got cyborg animals, mega-piranhas, eco-skyscrapers, awesome treehouses, and much more! If you want to post a ...

The invention comes after a decade of research into cyborg insects – which could be used in search and rescue missions ...

This study provides a comprehensive overview of cyborg animals within the framework of animal taxonomy, summarizing the current state of research from a zoological perspective. Subsequently, the ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore 3D-printed a flexible diving suit that roaches wear like a backpack. A chemical oxygen generator inside of it creates oxygen when the bug ...

The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web.

Roboticists frequently turn to nature for inspiration for their inventions, reverse engineering the traits that evolution has developed over millennia. Others are taking a shortcut by simply ...

Cyborg cockroaches given tiny diving suits to hunt for disaster survivors. Scientists have created tiny 3D-printed diving suits for cyborg cockroaches that could help find survivors in flooded ...

THE next time a moth alights on your window sill, watch what you say. Sure, it may look like an innocent visitor, irresistibly drawn to the light in your room, but it could actually be a spy – one of ...

Though the tools are new, Anthes says, the ethical questions are not A cyborg beetle or a pet fish engineered to glow under ultraviolet light might sound like something you’d see in a movie about the ...