The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose mission is "to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military", is looking to create little hybrid insect robots.

DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphoses. The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects.

Does anyone else see an issue here?  Does creating insect cyborgs even sound like a good idea?   It sounds more like something that could turn out very bad.  If they plan to use them as weapons, which what other reason would that have for creating them in the first place, it would give a new meaning to the killer bee.

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