The future is approaching crawling on six legs.

Motherboard went to Singapore to meet Dr Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer at the Nanyang Technological University.
Sato and his research team have transformed the living cockroaches into cyborgs, via the electrical control of their motor functions.
After studying the muscular build of insects, neural networks and control of the legs, the researchers wired the small animals as well as being able to control them via a control unit.
In this way, they could manipulate their walk, the speed, direction of flight and other forms of movement.
Essentially, the cockroaches have become robots lack of control over their motor functions.
It is interesting that, despite the researchers monitor the animals through an electrical system, they still take the necessary energy from the food they eat.
As a result, the muscles are driven by the insects themselves, but they have no decision-making power on how to contract them.
In addition, the transformation of the cyborg in cockroaches seems to have no harmful consequences for their health.
The natural duration of their lives ranging from three to six months, and even with the interference of the researchers are able to survive for several months.
According to scientists, no one cockroach died as a result of a simulation.
If technology seems crazy, you know that its implications are absolutely practical.
You can place on insects of the sensors that detect heat, and thus the people, so that they can be manipulated to move in their direction.
One skill that is useful when you look for someone, as in a criminal investigation or in hunting down terrorists.
The researchers are determined to limit any potential application of this technology for peaceful purposes.
And who knows where it might go?
Considering the results obtained in the handling of motor functions of small creatures like a cockroach, maybe it will be possible to implement it on larger animals.

From Vice