Engineers to build cyborg locusts, study odor-guided navigation - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis

Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have long sought to understand the power of locusts’ sensing, computing and locomotory capabilities. With a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, they will converge that research to develop a “cyborg,” or mobile robot or drone, that can mimic the locusts’ behaviors.

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