Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit

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Cyborg cockroaches with SCUBA suits allow underwater breathing for hours, enhancing disaster search and rescue.
Engineers from Nanyang Technological University created a 3-D-printed suit with oxygen tanks and waterproofing.
The technology expands cyborg insects' operational parameters to flooded or inaccessible areas, improving rescue efforts.
Cyborg cockroaches offer advantages over robots, including autonomy, no bulky batteries, and ability to navigate tight spaces.
Potential applications extend beyond rescue to inspecting pipes, tunnels, and infrastructure in challenging environments.

A diving suit was developed for terrestrial insects to extend their operational range underwater.
The suit features a flexible waterproof shell and a miniaturized oxygen generator using MnO2-catalyzed H2O2 decomposition.
Cockroaches equipped with the suit survived and moved underwater for up to 3 hours, achieving amphibious locomotion.

1X announces Bill Nash as new CFO, bringing financial leadership experience from ambitious tech companies.
Breakthrough 25 Degree of Freedom (DOF) tendon-driven hands for NEO humanoid platform achieve near human-level dexterity, strength, safety, and reliability.
These hands are designed to remove hardware limitations, making data the only barrier to robot capabilities.

Robostral Navigate is an 8B model for autonomous robot navigation using only a single RGB camera.
It achieves 76.6% success on unseen R2R-CE benchmarks, outperforming multi-sensor approaches.
The model combines pointing-based navigation with reinforcement learning for continuous improvement.

Long-term space travel poses severe health risks due to radiation exposure, microgravity damage to muscles/bones/eyes, and psychological effects from confined living.
Hibernation, a natural physiological strategy in animals, could protect against space hazards by reducing metabolic activity, radiation damage, and resource needs (food/water).
Humans are not natural hibernators, but researchers are developing techniques (e.g., drugs, ultrasound) to induce synthetic torpor, funded by ESA and NASA.

Researchers reverse-engineered the Australian kestrel to improve drone stability in gusty winds.
Vertical gusts cause 25–100 times more lift variation than horizontal gusts in small wings, a key challenge for low-altitude drones.
Kestrels use over 22 degrees of freedom, lightweight bodies, and distributed feedback systems to adjust instantly to turbulence.

A diving suit was developed for terrestrial insects to extend their operational range underwater.
The suit features a flexible waterproof shell and a miniaturized oxygen generator using MnO2-catalyzed H2O2 decomposition.
Cockroaches equipped with the suit survived and moved underwater for up to 3 hours, achieving amphibious locomotion.

1X announces Bill Nash as new CFO, bringing financial leadership experience from ambitious tech companies.
Breakthrough 25 Degree of Freedom (DOF) tendon-driven hands for NEO humanoid platform achieve near human-level dexterity, strength, safety, and reliability.
These hands are designed to remove hardware limitations, making data the only barrier to robot capabilities.

Robostral Navigate is an 8B model for autonomous robot navigation using only a single RGB camera.
It achieves 76.6% success on unseen R2R-CE benchmarks, outperforming multi-sensor approaches.
The model combines pointing-based navigation with reinforcement learning for continuous improvement.

Long-term space travel poses severe health risks due to radiation exposure, microgravity damage to muscles/bones/eyes, and psychological effects from confined living.
Hibernation, a natural physiological strategy in animals, could protect against space hazards by reducing metabolic activity, radiation damage, and resource needs (food/water).
Humans are not natural hibernators, but researchers are developing techniques (e.g., drugs, ultrasound) to induce synthetic torpor, funded by ESA and NASA.

Researchers reverse-engineered the Australian kestrel to improve drone stability in gusty winds.
Vertical gusts cause 25–100 times more lift variation than horizontal gusts in small wings, a key challenge for low-altitude drones.
Kestrels use over 22 degrees of freedom, lightweight bodies, and distributed feedback systems to adjust instantly to turbulence.

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