Neuroscience's new tech: RoboRoach-The Robot Cockroach

At first glance it all looks a little gimmicky and pointless but this is the same technology that helped us to understand diseases like Parkinson's disease and in cochlear implants. These kits are aimed primarily at schools to teach schoolchildren how the brain works.

TEDGlobal- The Technology, Entertainment and Design conference are unveiling the cyborg roach as one of the available technologies  at this year's 'Think Again' themed conference.

The RSPCA have rightly shown concerns over the dismantling of cockroaches and implanting these devices onto their backs becoming encouraging to children to do the same. The neuroscientists say they are "pretty certain" that this does not impose pain on the creatures. "Pretty certain" is not very certain.


The whole point of the project is to create a tool that will help us to understand how the brain works. The neuroscientists say that the insects adapt very quickly and ignore the stimulation showing they still have free will...I don't know so much, myself...What do you think?

It all seems a bit too cruel if you ask me.