ArticleNature communications2025
Swarm navigation of cyborg-insects in unknown obstructed soft terrain.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Cyborg insect factory: automatic assembly for insect-computer hybrid robot via vision-guided robotic arm manipulation of custom bipolar electrodes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Ergonomic Insect Headgear and Abdominal Buckle with Surface Stimulators Manufactured via Multimaterial 3D Printing: Snap-and-Secure Installation of Noninvasive Sensory Stimulators for Cyborg Insects.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cyborg insects refer to hybrid robots that integrate living insects with miniature electronic controllers to enable robotic-like programmable control. These creatures exhibit advantages over conventional robots in adaption to complex terrain and sustained energy efficiency. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature on the control of multi-cyborg systems. This research gap is due to the difficulty in coordinating the movements of a cyborg system under the presence of insects' inherent individual variability in their reactions to control input. Regarding this issue, we propose a swarm navigation algorithm and verify it under experiments. This research advances swarm robotics by integrating biological organisms with control theory to develop intelligent autonomous systems for real-world applications.
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