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- University of Queensland and UNSW researchers built cyborg cockroaches to provide medical aid in disasters.
- The paraborgs carry a camera, electrodes and an auto-inject syringe for drug delivery.
- In tests they injected targets 95 % of the time within 15 cm, with 72 % navigation-to-injection success.
- Researchers say the devices could deliver oxytocin, antivenom, epinephrine or insulin.
- They hope cyborg insects, including wall-climbing beetles, will operate in emergencies within five to ten years.
