A robot has heard sounds through the ear of a dead locust in a world’s first experiment that uses the Ear-on-a-Chip method to create a long-lasting sensory device. A team from Tel Aviv University announced their new ‘Ear-bot’ that replaces an electronic microphone in a bio-hybrid robot with the insect’s ear, allowing the machine to … Read more
Locust swarms could hold the key to developing effective collision avoidance technology for robots, drones and self-driving cars Locusts fly in swarms of millions but a special neuron stops them from colliding Researchers from the US have made an electronic version inspired by the insects The sensor is far less bulky than current alternatives and responds in … Read more
This is the horrifying moment a swarm of locusts sweeps through the streets of India, which now faces the combined woes of coronavirus, a heatwave, deadly floods and the worst locust plague in three decades. Locals ran for shelter as ‘billions and trillions’ of locusts invaded a town, engulfing a staircase and blanketing the sky … Read more
Billions of locusts have laid waste to 500,000 acres of Ethiopian cropland and unleashed a food crisis. A United Nations report found that the devastation caused by the swarms have left millions of citizens in need of emergency food aid. The findings from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which recently concluded a joint assessment … Read more