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Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions (futurism.com)
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[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The researchers are hoping that the tiny cyborg could allow the military to infiltrate hard-to-access space or be used in search and rescue missions to find survivors in natural disasters, according to a research paper.

In other words the researchers are clawing at reasons to justify their research. The Chinese military aren't looking into this, following commands 9 out of 10 times isn't reliable enough to even start development.

This is about as strategically useful as a bluetooh controlled robo-roach.

[–] svtdragon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

If you scale it up you can probably send more than one right? Send ten and nine work. That's not nothing.