Ssh… your conversation may be bugged by a cyborg beetle | Mail Online
U.S. military create live remote-controlled beetles to bug conversations
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:18 PM on 19th October 2009
Spies may soon be bugging conversations using actual insects, thanks to research funded by the US military.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent years developing a whole host of cyborg critters, in the hopes of creating the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’.
Now a team of researchers led by Hirotaka Sato have created cyborg beetles which are guided wirelessly via a laptop.



