https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fuel-cells-powered-by-roach-blood-may-someday-lead-to-75485513322.html

“Back in 2012, researchers from North Carolina detailed a system whereby they could remotely control a cockroach via an embedded chip, forcing the cockroach to move wherever they wanted it to. Now, a team of scientists from Japan’s Osaka University and the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has seemingly improved on that work, by figuring out how to power that technology using the roaches’ own blood. Simply put, the bug-mounted fuel cell creates electricity using sugar in the cockroach’s blood, thereby creating a roach-powered fuel source that doesn’t need to be replaced for long periods….

“Using robo-roaches, rescue teams could, say, investigate a building after an earthquake by way of the insect-mounted sensors. Flying insects like the roach are resilient and able to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time.”

Cool! Remote control cockroaches.

Other than checking out damaged buildings, what else might remote controlled cockroaches be good for?

esselte said:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fuel-cells-powered-by-roach-blood-may-someday-lead-to-75485513322.html

“Back in 2012, researchers from North Carolina detailed a system whereby they could remotely control a cockroach via an embedded chip, forcing the cockroach to move wherever they wanted it to. Now, a team of scientists from Japan’s Osaka University and the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has seemingly improved on that work, by figuring out how to power that technology using the roaches’ own blood. Simply put, the bug-mounted fuel cell creates electricity using sugar in the cockroach’s blood, thereby creating a roach-powered fuel source that doesn’t need to be replaced for long periods….

“Using robo-roaches, rescue teams could, say, investigate a building after an earthquake by way of the insect-mounted sensors. Flying insects like the roach are resilient and able to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time.”

Cool! Remote control cockroaches.

Other than checking out damaged buildings, what else might remote controlled cockroaches be good for?

Bugging foreign heads of state.

esselte said:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fuel-cells-powered-by-roach-blood-may-someday-lead-to-75485513322.html

“Back in 2012, researchers from North Carolina detailed a system whereby they could remotely control a cockroach via an embedded chip, forcing the cockroach to move wherever they wanted it to. Now, a team of scientists from Japan’s Osaka University and the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has seemingly improved on that work, by figuring out how to power that technology using the roaches’ own blood. Simply put, the bug-mounted fuel cell creates electricity using sugar in the cockroach’s blood, thereby creating a roach-powered fuel source that doesn’t need to be replaced for long periods….

“Using robo-roaches, rescue teams could, say, investigate a building after an earthquake by way of the insect-mounted sensors. Flying insects like the roach are resilient and able to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time.”

Cool! Remote control cockroaches.

Other than checking out damaged buildings, what else might remote controlled cockroaches be good for?

Smuggling stuff into and out of prisons and the like.

Does anyone know much about this electricity from blood thing?

Could it be in the near future I can power my mobile phone with my own blood? Would I lose weight doing this, all else being unchanged?

Future Implantable Devices May be Powered by Blood Glucose
Jul 18, 2011

medgadget said:

Dr. Sven Kerzenmacher of University of Freiburg, Germany is working on developing a glucose fuel cell that could generate electricity to power implantable devices. The idea is intriguing because it takes a different approach than the mechanical generators most other researchers are working on.

Dr Kerzenmacher won this year’s Forum for Applied Microsystems Research Prize for his work.

Some details from University of Freiburg:

The idea behind Sven Kerzenmacher’s research, on the other hand, is the possibility of using of implantable glucose fuel cells on the basis of noble metal catalysts like platinum. Such catalysts are particularly well suited for use in implant systems due to their long-term stability and the fact that they can be sterilized. In the future, systems equipped with these fuel cells could be supplied with power by way of a continuous electrochemical reaction between glucose and oxygen from the tissue fluid. Kerzenmacher and his team aim to apply a thin coat of the fuel cells they have developed to the surface of the implant. The advantages of this technique over existing technologies stem from the fact that the fuel cells are only half as thick while delivering a 30 percent increase in performance. Moreover, platinum electrodes are not sensitive to unwanted chemical reactions like hydrolysis and oxidation. Kerzenmacher and his research group consisting of biologists, chemists, and engineers are currently developing new materials and techniques to improve the performance of the fuel cells.

>>>Other than checking out damaged buildings, what else might remote controlled cockroaches be good for?

Precision guided bombs?

pranks, like cockroaches doing the same thing over and over to your partner?

bugging faceless liberal party members so we know what the next confrontational thing PM is going too do

Nuclear reactor maintenance

performance art, say 100 off them doing dance routines

esselte said:

Does anyone know much about this electricity from blood thing?

Could it be in the near future I can power my mobile phone with my own blood? Would I lose weight doing this, all else being unchanged?

Bingo!!

Forget mobile phone. Think plasma screen and Foxtel.

The more you watch the unfatter you get!

Gotta be a killer app