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2 January 2013updated 05 Oct 2023 8:37am

RoboRoach + Twitter = Crowdsourced cockroach steering

#cyborgcockroacheswillruletheworld

By Alex Hern

Artist Brittany Ransom has built a tiny cockroach backpack which lets her remote control a cockroach with Twitter. For science art! CNET has a video of the insectoid cyborg:

Ransom let visitors to the Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s exhibition Life, in some form control the roach by tweeting the hashtags #turnroachleft and #turnroachright at its twitter account, @tweetroach. Every thirty seconds, the winning hashtag was sent as a command to the insect through the RoboRoach control circuit.

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