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The animal rights organization says Backyard Brains may be committing a felony, practicing veterinary medicine without a license. (Read More)

Cockroaches are pretty disgusting insects. If a cockroach is noticed at a restaurant or hotel, they will receive some really nasty reviews on Yelp. Backyard Brains launched a project on Kickstarter called RoboRoach and it has about two weeks to go until it ends. (Read More)

Now, you can control the movements of a live cockroach from your own smartphone with the help of the world's first commercially available cyborg. (Read More)

On Wednesday, we gave a TED Talk on the need for neuroscience education, our outreach efforts, the ethics of using cockroaches, and closed with the first live demonstration of the new RoboRoach!  Photo Credits: James Duncan Davidson  (Read More)

Creators of the RoboRoach, which is billed as part cockroach/part machine, hope to impact the advancement of basic neuroscience research (Read More)

A company has launched a Kickstarter for living cyborg cockroaches that can be controlled via iPhone app. (Read More)

If you like remote-controlled cars and insects, you may want to invest in RoboRoach. A startup company called Backyard Brains, which sells neuroscience experiment kits to students, has taken to Kickstarter, seeking $10,000 in funding to mass manufacture devices that would let users control the movements of live cockroaches. (Read More)

I'm not sure where to begin on the ethics of this. On the up side, inspiring kids to learn about technology such as this could directly lead to promising careers resulting in the next generation of treatments. On the down side, we're seeing completely uncontrolled experimentation on the brains of animals, which leaves a pretty bad taste in the mouth, to put it mildly. Does it matter that this is being conducted on creatures we routinely exterminate? (Read More)

A new Kickstarter project wants to allow you to own and control your own cyborg cockroach. The RoboRoach is the world’s first commercially available “Insect Cyborg” that involves neuroscience and engineering. Researchers from “Backyard Brains” created a device that allows you to install a pack to the antenna of a cockroach and control the insect using an app available on the iPhone. (Read More)

The new dystopian surveillance state requires new toys. And right on time comes the RoboRoach. The creepy geeks behind ‘Backyard Brains” have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to underwrite the creation of the “world’s first commercially available cyborg!” (Read More)

Many of you have e-mailed us inquiring what the swag actually looks like. Ask and ye shall receive.  (Read More)

A new Kickstarter project aims to launch the next "neuro revolution" by teaching about brain stimulation and cockroach surgery. (Read More)

Backyard Brains has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support RoboRoach -- its endeavour to bring remote-controlled cockroaches to the public. (Read More)

If you're like me, you don't need much out of life. A good movie, a pretty girl, and a massive swarm of cyborg insects that you can command to bring a swift end to your enemies. Well, if this Kickstarter project has its way, we'll have the third one in no time. Meet the RoboRoach. This little kit allows you to mind control a living cockroach. (Read More)

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 real-life cockroach. Backyard Brains, the crew behind Twitter Roach, have been selling RoboRoach sets for creating cyborg insects for some time. But today, after getting as far as they can on their own, they're seeking Kickstarter funding to improve their design and develop "educational materials" to go with it. (Read More)

A wild new Kickstarter program aims to transform the common house pests into iPhone-manipulable pets VIDEO (Read More)