Cockroach-Controlled Robot

Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine. He's also originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is just full of "way out there" ideas -- like Doctor Moreau with a technology fetish. His latest one is having a cockroach control a robot. There's a really funky video of the project posted at YouTube, but for you more literature-oriented people, he was interviewed by Gizmodo and talks at length about the reasoning behind this project and some of his other work.

Although it doesn't mention this anywhere, Garnet did actually receive some funding for this project from the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Which is good, because funding bodies should be putting money toward development of these cutting-edge ideas. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

Link to YouTube video
Link to interview (via Gizmodo)