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Human operators can steer individual insects via controllers, but the company is also building software for autonomous swarming. Wilhelm said the goal is to use algorithms to coordinate dozens or potentially hundreds of biohybrid insects as a group. "With that algorithm we create, you can steer a whole swarm of insects towards a target. And that could be 10, that could be also, like, a hundred."
Thank you, I am going to have nightmares now.
This technology is supposed to be for disaster response (sending cockroaches to check for survivors under rubble and stuff), but yeah that sounds about right. I wonder how long it'll take until they put bombs in these.
Very disgusting human behavior