In a story that Fox News needs to pick up five fucking hours ago, the South China Morning Post reports that researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology were able to create a cyborg bee by strapping a tiny mind-control transceiver to one of the black and yellow eusocial insects and got the little bastard to follow flight commands directed into its tiny brain roughly 90 percent of the time.
“Insect-based robots inherit the superior mobility, camouflage capabilities and environmental adaptability of their biological hosts,” wrote Professor Zhao Jieliang and his team. “Compared to synthetic alternatives, they demonstrate enhanced stealth and extended operational endurance, making them invaluable for covert reconnaissance in scenarios such as urban combat, counterterrorism and narcotics interdiction, as well as critical disaster relief operations.”