Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel (nature.com)

Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that.

It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077

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Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?

Every day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

A related article and the language used to describe the creature matches

> Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1

Bill Gates at it again!!! Damn you Bill Gates, damn yoooooouuu...!

It is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"

This is the kind of Science I'd expect a 12 year old boy to come up with given unlimited funding.

> ... oxygen generation mechanism of diving suit for cyborg cockroaches

An actual quote from a Nature article

The authors of the article deserve to get appropriate controllers inserted right up into their assholes, so they enjoy the operational range it gives to their fucking selves.

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Just what we need at this moment, the viruses and bacteria of hissing cockroaches entering into our valuable water sources so we can drink it, and maybe experience aquatic-park-fun mode in our intestines. Or even discover (who knows? microbiologists can dream) a new exciting pandemic, when two ecosystems that never evolved to be together meet each other? Imagine those giant marine viruses, now on our cricket bars and mosquitoes.