{"id":147941,"date":"2022-10-11T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/cyborg-cockroaches-are-coming-and-they-just-want-to-help"},"modified":"2022-10-11T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:23:30","slug":"cyborg-cockroaches-are-coming-and-they-just-want-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/cyborg-cockroaches-are-coming-and-they-just-want-to-help","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyborg-cockroaches-are-coming-and-they-just-want-to-help3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by insects, robotic engineers are creating machines that could aid in search and rescue, pollinate plants and sniff out gas leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A \u201crobofly\u201d that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space.<\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t just buzzy ideas, they\u2019re becoming reality.<\/p>\n<p>Robotic engineers are scouring the insect world for inspiration. Some are strapping 3D-printed sensors onto live Madagascar hissing cockroaches, while others are creating fully robotic bugs inspired by the ways insects move and fly.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Robotic engineers are scouring the insect world for inspiration, and creating machines that could be used for emergency response, farming and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by insects, robotic engineers are creating machines that could aid in search and rescue, pollinate plants and sniff out gas leaks. Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A \u201crobofly\u201d that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space. These aren\u2019t just buzzy ideas, they\u2019re becoming reality. Robotic engineers are scouring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1499,6,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}