If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong. Well, at least the “useless” part. In recent years, cockroaches have been utilized to play a very important role in urban ...

North Queensland’s giant burrowing cockroach could deliver emergency medical care to people trapped in collapsed buildings or ...

Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver ...

If you had "cockroach in a scuba suit" on your 2026 bingo card, congratulations, you win. A recent study published in Nature Communications equipped a Madagascar hissing cockroach with a miniature ...

Liberal Waverley Councillor Michelle Stephenson says remote-controlled cockroaches could one day deliver emergency aid to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves and other dangerous locations.

Small robots and drones have come far from their original aims of creation. From hospitality service to spiritual guidance and even disaster response, they are being deployed in numerous fields.

What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg? Definitely one that can also breathe underwater. Yet, this is exactly what researchers have just created, except they are ...

While many people are working out how to genocide the cockroach population, a team of Japanese boffins are turning them into robot heros. Japanese researchers have discovered a way to mount solar ...

Conceptual illustration of the cyborg insect operating underwater. If you had "cockroach in a scuba suit" on your 2026 bingo card, congratulations, you win. A recent study published in Nature ...