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it's unbelievable that humans can take
over control if you think about where
this could go this is really incredible
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we're on our way now to the Nanjing
Technical University to meet dr. Sato a
researcher who's been working on some of
the most advanced cyborg insects on
earth hello dr. Sotter so what is the
work that you do over here a purpose to
contour the fright of a beetle I study
the many things about the tiny muscle
configuration or neural network of this
living up
Peto and also de I started leg contour
this is also by stimulating the muscles
yes leg muscles and we can do something
different walking gait motion you
stimulate all the muscles individually
individually so that the beetle actually
has no control over what it's doing here
so you basically make it into a robot
actually like Roberto Oh coach of course
it's an era but that a night not so o
big program I'd be very excited to see
the work that you know right now let's
go through them now yeah great right oh
yes sir so could you tell us what what
you do here and we use this system to
Detective the leg motion so we can put a
marker on small mark on the deck and so
this is this is the beetle that you're
working with yes you can see the menu is
me and my center to tell Frankie he's a
bit good after the implantation the
working on yourself relaxed motion
control actually and he knows that he
knows about the location of the leg
muscles very well can you tell me a bit
what what you're going to do
oh this quarry I will press is that
there are two versions aha you can
change the working gate the other one is
I can change the Stanford Quincy that
means how fast the leg moves yeah and
these LED lights they correspond each to
a muscle yes
so in total 8 meters yeah okay let's see
so the status is 0.125
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so his tripod so it's very small and so
now it's alternating its left and right
the Navy so if I want to increase this
that will continue to press this button
uh-huh so that if I press once so it's
faster
no I still point to five Hertz so
amazing that you just press a button and
the beetle starts walking it's I don't
know it seems almost unreal that you can
that you can kind of achieve this in a
living creature
if I press one more time they don't find
five minutes so he's faster damn that
this is really amazing one of us if I
want to a chance to galloping I press
this button so it will change to therapy
so yes let's go and this is when it runs
faster basically yeah he's the Stafford
rent is one Hertz
uh-huh no it's too hot Wow yep he
struggles himself but it still obviously
less delusion signals uh-huh and do you
think is he struggling to kind of stop
these stimulation signals oh yes I think
so let's do it
okay see ya see ya mercury and this just
keeps on working like this oh yes it
doesn't get used to it or something it
does no notarized
stimuli you know I form water half an
hour so we still like this wasting any
more than seven days whatever we ha and
it keeps working yes yes
you're putting in electrical signals
into the beetle now but is it using up
its own energy towards basically is it
using the food that it eats to drive the
muscles or the muzzles driven by the
electricity is the food so you have to
feed it to be able to keep on doing this
looking at this thing it's it's
unbelievable actually that that humans
can you know take over control over
basically over the will power losses
insect because the muscles are being
driven by the insect itself I mean it
has to feed it is as to eat to be able
to move the muscles and all that they
are doing is putting a bit of electrical
stimulation into the muscles and they
can control it to a degree that's
amazing if you think about it these may
just be the first stages of this but if
you think about where this could go
this is really incredible and how long
would it be to like this live at a
natural
llegará be torture survives for three
months to six months even after the
implantation Peter can survivor for
several months
uh-huh we have never seen the beta with
died light after the stimulation so it
doesn't bit it doesn't really hurt no so
this is the walking part of the robot
and you're also working on the flight
fry control and you're also doing that
here in the building and just reading
about that take a look at next feeding
okay oh hi I'm a student ID out of my
students at the tongue hello wow this is
a very impressive room we like a beat
off to fry as long as possible
then we use this smooth paper and the
VDS veto and the Frank veto even can
scratch on the water still the beat oh
go back to the arena right yeah I will
make the air gap between the paper and
the actual wall because of Ito crash on
the world and centimeters and also our
device does not be undamaged it should I
imagine it that you have a remote
control or use Wii Remote
a Wii Remote
all right all I got to do is blow on its
back to make it swing to go and then I
can control it with this controller by
pressing a button and moving it to a
side yeah yeah okay better by one
hey it worked it went right can I try
again as Donna gasps - look it's a teen
I guess and react
you can also put other sensors on the
chip right because I can imagine that
only steering a beetle it doesn't do
much yet for someone who is buried under
rubble for this commission the important
thing is the two are locate missing live
feeds personally like people a lot of
people is born
therefore they buy said setting in some
sense we can detect simple living people
and the beetle can go move on working
while frying tools I did add that the
heat source of the living people and
finds the location that would be very
useful and do you see other applications
as well Romina investigation who finds
some of the know the terrorists or
something you know we are very serious
to use the Jesus I will be too for
peaceful application to save people and
to save their world rain peacefully
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I think the most fascinating thing that
I've learned over these past few days is
that technology and nature are creeping
more and more together and that we might
be heading towards a future where
technology and nature might become
indistinguishable
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