Roaches and Robots

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Listen to Coackroaches rescuers with guns, cameras, diving suits and space suits.
Diffusion attacked by bots. OpenAI bots cooperate to hack a website in a swarm, expressed in song.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Biorobotics researchers from UQ have transformed North Queensland giant burrowing cockroaches (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) into minature cyborg paramedics.
(Photo credit: The University of Queensland )

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