(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) CHICAGO, May 4 (Reuters) - Who will help you plan for retirement - a robot or a cyborg? Pundits have been saying for ...

It’s a different kind of “Help” by the Beetles. Between bomb-detecting rats and medical-grade maggots, it’s clear that one person’s pest is another’s savior. The latest member of this unlikely league ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack. Researchers have made major strides in ...

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A research team has developed two new autonomous navigation systems for cyborg insects to better navigate unknown, complex environments. The algorithms utilized only simple circuits that leveraged ...

Though it draws its name from an extraterrestrial species, the "Alien" franchise is often just as interested in synthetic life as it is in the biological world. This goes all the way back to the very ...