Robotic Cockroaches As Spies?
Do you ever feel someone is watching you while you tiptoe to your kitchen for a late-night glass of water?
You reluctantly turn on your bright lights and cover your eyes to fend off the brightness from waking you completely. Then you look down and notice at a glance a brown insect with antennas staring at you.
Before you can react, it darts off like a ninja disappearing into the shadows and hiding before you can kill it…They’re quick, those little buggers.
Most insects don’t respond that way at all. They don’t even care if you catch them in your hamburgers and hotdogs at a cookout. They want to finish their meals and don’t care who sees them.
So, why do cockroaches respond as if they’ve been caught playing peeping tom on your family?
Well, maybe they were…You see, cockroaches are like the James Bond of the insect world. They thrive in secrecy and excel at espionage. They live in the shadows, scuttling around with their sneaky senses, always on the lookout.
And when they’re caught peeping on your family, it’s like their worst nightmare come true, as if they need to abort their mission immediately, or it will fail.
They’re not used to being the ones observed, the ones under scrutiny. They prefer to be the voyeur, not the voyeured. So, the next time you spot a cockroach staring you down in the dead of night, remember they might have been enjoying a little late-night spy session.
And maybe, just maybe, you interrupted their top-secret mission.
Sounds precisely like the three-letter agency behavior.
We must first ask ourselves, “Is this possible?”
The answer is, Yes.
Have you heard of the Robo Roaches?
Utilizing electronic “backpacks” in live cockroaches, also known as robot roaches, is an intriguing advancement in scientific investigation. This technology has enabled researchers to remotely regulate the movements of these creatures, providing invaluable insights into their behavior and biology.
The backpacks, consisting of electronic components, serve as a means of communication between the scientists and the robot roaches.
Researchers report January 16, 1997, at Tokyo University in Japan started the robo-roach project because they thought remote-control bugs could be used for all sorts of sensitive work:
“Insects can do many things that people can’t,” said assistant professor Isao Shimoyama, head of Tokyo University’s bio-robot research team. “The potential applications of this work for mankind could be immense.”
In their pursuit of developing innovative technology, researchers have embarked on a unique experiment involving roaches. To facilitate this experiment, the cockroaches were gassed with carbon dioxide before the researchers carefully removed the roaches’ wings and antennae, making way for installing specially designed backpacks fitted with pulse-emitting electrodes.
Precisely positioned, these electrodes are intended to receive signals from a remote control device, enabling researchers to stimulate the electrodes and manipulate the roaches’ movements.
The cockroaches can be guided to turn left or right, move forward, or even navigate backward by directing the pulses. Although the device is still undergoing refinements, it has been observed that the roaches become less responsive to the pulses over time.
Within a few years, Shimoyama told the Associated Press man in Tokyo, “Electronically controlled insects carrying mini-cameras or other sensory devices could be used for sensitive missions such as crawling through earthquake rubble to search for victims or slipping under doors on spying missions.”
Yeah, we know what they are REALLY for, anyways researchers have also revealed a rather intriguing proposal that may plunge the world of espionage into uncharted territory. Recent findings suggest cockroaches equipped with cameras could be hugely effective covert operations assets.
In fact, while they’re at it, how about they create a special branch just for them in the CIA – the Cockroach Informant Agency – if this idea has yet to come to fruition. While the concept may sound somewhat eccentric, it has not gone unnoticed by the Japanese government.
Who am I kidding?
I’m sure all world governments want in on this project so they can secretly spy on their citizens like the evil creeps they are.
In a display of interest and support, the Japanese government provided a substantial grant of $5 million to Shimoyama’s team for their pioneering research. It is worth noting that the team exclusively utilizes American roaches due to their considerable size and resilience compared to other species.
According to a report done by THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.:
The research team breeds its own supply of several hundred cockroaches in plastic bins.
Not just any roach will do. Researchers use only the American cockroach (Perplaneta Americana) because it is bigger and hardier than most other species.
Understandably, the secretive nature of this research project means that further details are scarce. However, the prospect of camera-carrying cockroaches infiltrating secure locations and gathering valuable intelligence is undoubtedly a good sign that biotechnology is being used to spy on people across the globe.
Researchers and governments lie.
They expect us to believe they’re using cockroaches to save people from natural disasters and terrorists?
Give me a break.
Roaches are real and have been around from the beginning, but humans are repurposing them. Do we know for a fact that they’re using those insects to spy on us?
No, but I’m 99.9 percent sure they are.
What do you think?
We’ll wait for another 50 years for the CIA to declassify the truth, but in the meantime, subscribe, support, and watch this cartoon called RoboRoaches, released on July 16, 2001.
Nothing strange about that timing at all.
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Tom
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Hammer Time!
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Clive
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I’ve often thought that technology like this would be very useful in finding out what really goes on in places like Area 51. We can but hope !
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