Imagine a cockroach crawling across the floor in a secret bunker, and you think, "That's disgusting." But in fact, this is a spy of the future. This is how SWARM Biotactics sees the world, which has turned live cockroaches into real cyborg scouts — small, inconspicuous and very smart.
Each insect received a miniature "backpack" — a tiny electronic system that controls movement, collects data and transmits it in real time. These "backpacks" include sensors, communications, and even artificial intelligence elements. Cockroaches no longer just run from the light — they are now controlled remotely, and they perform tasks in places where neither a drone, nor a robot, nor a human can get through.
Why cockroaches? Because they are hardy, agile and inconspicuous. They can fit through cracks, survive a collapse, move silently, and work in environments where machinery will simply break down. And with a "smart" backpack on their back, they turn into living intelligence nodes.
According to Stefan Wilhelm, CEO of SWARM, we are entering an era where the key advantage is access to places where no one could get before: ruins of buildings, underground tunnels, hostile territories. And ordinary robots are often powerless there. But a swarm of such bio—cyborgs - launched and forgotten — can spend hours collecting video, sound, temperature, chemical signals, everything — and unnoticed.
The technology is scalable, cheap, and, importantly, extremely low—visibility - no noise, thermal traces, or radio signals that are easy to intercept. This is not just a novelty — it is a new paradigm of espionage and intelligence.
SWARM positions its systems not only for the army, but also for rescue operations, such as searching for survivors under the rubble after an earthquake. But it's obvious: if a cockroach with a backpack can get into a secret facility and record everything, it's no longer fantastic. This is the real thing.
And yes, there may soon be more than just a cockroach in your house. An agent with a mission.
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