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DragonflEye consists of a living, slightly modified dragonfly that carries a small backpack of electronics. The backpack interfaces directly with the dragonfly's nervous system to control it, and uses tiny solar panels to harvest enough energy to power itself without the need for batteries. Draper showed us a nifty looking mock-up of what the system might look like a few months ago, but today, they've posted the first video of DragonflEye taking to the air.
The unique thing about DragonflEye (relative to other cyborg insects) is that it doesn't rely on spoofing the insect's sensors or controlling its muscles, but instead uses optical electrodes to inject steering commands directly into the insect's nervous system, which has been genetically tweaked to accept them. This means that the dragonfly can be controlled to fly where you want, without sacrificing the built-in flight skills that make insects the envy of all other robotic micro air vehicles.
[Video]: https://vimeo.com/219709402
[Additional Info and Interview]: For lots more on DragonflEye
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday June 02 2017, @01:46AM (1 child)
And you know this HOW?
Cattle have life pretty good actually. Most farmers and ranchers actually do care about their animals. Right up to the point they die quickly.
I've always lived around small dairy farms and even as a kid back in the late 50s I remember these guys taking pretty good care if their herd.
Corporate farms maybe not so much.
Large chicken ranches have been pretty inhumane. But we don't actually know how much the birds actually suffer of even if that concept applies to them.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Informative) by julian on Friday June 02 2017, @03:30AM
I'm a biologist.
Please visit a factory farm.
These are the vast majority of farms.