Called the "first commercially available cyborg," RoboRoach is a way of sending directional commands to a live cockroach via a smartphone app. Cyborg cockroaches who can be controlled by smartphones ...

Let’s say you have a certain someone on your list who is really into biohacking. Let’s also assume you’re Ok with having discoid roaches in the house. Then also let’s assume you don’t mind people ...

While the RoboRoach is not a real-life Terminator, the company behind the electro-bug, Backyard Brains, is touting it as the first commercially available cyborg. They're looking to raise $10,000, via ...

What DARPA does with animal test subjects behind closed doors is one thing, but here we have something else entirely: mad-scientist kits that allow anyone at home to control the movement of a ...

Some aspiring Dr. Frankensteins have taken the circuitry from a Hexbug remote control critter and grafted it directly to the nervous system of a large cockroach. They can now steer the cockroach. I’m ...

Available to backers via Kickstarter today, and featured at TEDGlobal this week, the RoboRoach is a $99 kit consisting of electrodes, sensors, and a few batteries that allows anyone to drive their ...