Remotely Controlled Beetles at the University of California Berkeley

This giant flower beetle is being wirelessly controlled in free flight by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley.

I did not create this video. All rights belong to Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz, University of California, Berkeley.

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[Southparknscrubs]

That's pretty awesome. omgfacts anyone?

[rskbug]

Sad to see insects being controlled out of their free will.

The insect is more or less in a dead state because it cant use its brain anymore.

[kazzikame]

PETA's gonna have a field day with this one.

[seaniamoons]

I'm curious as too whether or not this method could be applied to humans.

[jordannewcastle]

Can you do this with a wasp? And then like press "S" to make it sting. Would be pretty cool, anyone?

[NEPatriots128154]

@rskbug Insects are pretty much machines anyway. If it was a dog or something this would be wrong, but it's a bug. It has no conscious

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

I meant kind

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@riderpoet you saying that encapsulates the type of mentality that makes scientists unpopular around the world. It's the absolute disconnection from nature, it's like that Native American said about the white man-to the white man, -everything- is dead,w/o a spirit, even his own kid.