Epi 67 – Wildlife: How Hero Rats and Cyborg cockroaches can save human lives!

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Most of us have played with a remote-controlled car that we like to guide across several surfaces – both inside and outside our homes. It appears that the child in us (who loves such remote controlled cars) never left the minds of some Japanese scientists.  Recently, they created a cyborg cockroach. Its movements are controlled remotely by scientists. They guide it to crawl under the debris and rubble of earthquakes. The camera attached to this cockroach can help people identify any humans who are trapped and are in need of urgent rescue.

If this sounds like a piece of science fiction, our 8-year old co-host Nayra assures us that she has read plenty of articles and watched videos showing how this works. In the real world. Nayra also speaks about another creation (or more of an alternate training) to rats. Hero rats have been trained to sniff out landmines, and clean large tracts of lands, thus making them safe for people to use these lands without fear.

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