The researchers said that they will attack sensors to the locusts.
These sensors will be connected to those parts of the locusts brain that processed odours in the environment.
He said that animal noses were still far more sophisticated than anything artificial.
Why reinvent the wheel?
he told the universitys Source magazine.
Why not take advantage of the biological solution?
That is the philosophy here.
Even the state-of-the-art miniaturized chemical sensing devices have a handful of sensors.
But havent animals long been used to detect explosives?
Bomb sniffing dogs are extremely effective except in hot conditions when they begin panting.
Rats have also been proposed.
But cyborg insects offer several advantages, flying to inaccessible locations and running far less risk of triggering explosions.
To create these bio-robotic bugs, he and his colleagues plan to integrate three far-out sounding technologies.
Firstly, theyve got to steer the locust into the right spot.
Once the locust is in the danger zone, the researchers need to know what it smells.
Raman says all of these technologies have been tested individually.
Now, they need to integrate them into a holistic, bionic-bug system.
He said he could have functioning locust detectors in two years.
source: www.techworm.net
