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</article><div class="bbWrapper" style="">Many people already think cockroaches are evil.
After all, they show up by surprise, scurry around where you don't want
them, regularly frighten people, and can't easily be exterminated.<br>
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When I saw this quote in a tech news story, it got me thinking.<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 20px">"The use of insects as platforms for
small robots has an incredible number of useful applications, from
search and rescue to national defense," says [Abhishek] Dutta, an
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who
specializes in control system optimization and cyber-physical systems.</div><br>
How are cockroaches going to help with national defense? If cockroaches
turned into remote-controller robots can be used for DE-fense, why not
OF-fense?<br>
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It's bad enough when cockroaches race across your kitchen floor, but
what if they were actually programmed to do something really bad? How
might they be used by one country to attack another?</div><article class="message-body js-selectToQuote">
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</article><div class="bbWrapper" style="">Many people already think cockroaches are evil.
After all, they show up by surprise, scurry around where you don't want
them, regularly frighten people, and can't easily be exterminated.<br>
<br>
When I saw this quote in a tech news story, it got me thinking.<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 20px">"The use of insects as platforms for
small robots has an incredible number of useful applications, from
search and rescue to national defense," says [Abhishek] Dutta, an
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who
specializes in control system optimization and cyber-physical systems.</div><br>
How are cockroaches going to help with national defense? If cockroaches
turned into remote-controller robots can be used for DE-fense, why not
OF-fense?<br>
<br>
It's bad enough when cockroaches race across your kitchen floor, but
what if they were actually programmed to do something really bad? How
might they be used by one country to attack another?</div><article class="message-body js-selectToQuote">
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