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Insect Cyborg Engineering

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Posted on: March 21, 2008 2:45 PM, by Benjamin Cohen

A public service announcement from The World's Fair.

DARPA Hybrid Insect MEMS

"DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphoses. The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects. Once these platforms are integrated, various microsystem payloads can be mounted on the platforms with the goal of controlling insect locomotion, sense local environment, and scavenge power. Multidisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, and biologists are expected to work together to develop new technologies utilizing insect biology, while developing foundations for the new field of insect cyborg engineering. The HI-MEMS may also serve as vehicles to conduct research to answer basic questions in biology."

Deadline: April 17

Because we can, people.

Maybe.



Thanks to Beej for the notice. Shudder to think, we probably might've missed it otherwise.

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