Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

What DARPA does with animal test subjects behind closed doors is one thing, but here we have something else entirely: mad-scientist kits that allow anyone at home to control the movement of a ...

Soon you'll be able to direct the path of a cockroach with a smartphone and the swipe of your finger. Greg Gage and his colleagues at Backyard Brains have developed a device called the RoboRoach that ...

Called the "first commercially available cyborg," RoboRoach is a way of sending directional commands to a live cockroach via a smartphone app. Cyborg cockroaches who can be controlled by smartphones ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Backyard Brains has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support RoboRoach -- its endeavour to bring ...

Ever fancied having the ability to control Cockroaches? If you have, then the new RoboRoach application and hardware might be just up your street. The RoboRoach project has just launched on ...

Available to backers via Kickstarter today, and featured at TEDGlobal this week, the RoboRoach is a $99 kit consisting of electrodes, sensors, and a few batteries that allows anyone to drive their ...

Robots are pretty cool, but have you ever wanted to create your own iPhone controlled cyborg? Backyard Brains is banking that a lot of kids are interested in cyborg technology and neuroscience ...

A project currently on Kickstarter would give supporters the tools to remote-control a cockroach using their smartphones. Called RoboRoach, the project is billed as "the world's first commercially ...