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New Cyborg Bees Operate Like RC Cars Thanks to Tiny Brain Controllers

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Somewhere between dystopian sci-fi and a Black Mirror B-side, Chinese scientists have just wired a living bee’s brain to a controller that makes it turn left or right on command. A team at the Beijing Institute of Technology successfully turned an ordinary worker bee into a fully functional cyborg, using a 74-milligram controller—the lightest insect-compatible […] The post New Cyborg Bees Operate Like RC Cars Thanks to Tiny Brain Controllers appeared first on VICE.

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