{"id":57849,"date":"2017-06-02T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/video-shows-maiden-flight-of-cyborg-dragonfly"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:20","slug":"video-shows-maiden-flight-of-cyborg-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/video-shows-maiden-flight-of-cyborg-dragonfly","title":{"rendered":"Video shows maiden flight of cyborg dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-shows-maiden-flight-of-cyborg-dragonfly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, a variety of cyborg animals have been unleashed, as scientists kit out <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/remote-control-cockroaches\/24015\/\" target=\"_blank\">cockroaches<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/cyborg-locust-sniffer-dogs\/44089\/\" target=\"_blank\">locusts<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/parasitic-robot-cyborg-turtle\/49729\/\" target=\"_blank\">turtles<\/a> with electronic accoutrements. Back in January, researchers from Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) outlined plans to fit <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/cyborg-dragonfly-optrode\/47625\/\" target=\"_blank\">dragonflies<\/a> with tiny electronic backpacks, allowing them to be controlled remotely. In a new video, their cyborg dragonflies have taken flight for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The animal kingdom is fertile inspirational ground for new technology, but it\u2019s difficult to properly mimic the speed and manoeuvrability of a dragonfly, or the complicated olfactory system of a locust. Rather than designing robots and sensors from scratch, scientists have developed ways to take advantage of the hard work nature has already done, by equipping live insects with electronic systems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/dragonfleye-cyborg-first-flight\/49819\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/dragonfleye-cyborg-first-flight\/49819\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, a variety of cyborg animals have been unleashed, as scientists kit out cockroaches, locusts and even turtles with electronic accoutrements. Back in January, researchers from Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) outlined plans to fit dragonflies with tiny electronic backpacks, allowing them to be controlled remotely. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57881,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849\/revisions\/57881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}