# Oh Dear God - Roboroaches! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921 "2014-04-12T05:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/1 "2014-04-12T05:14:38Z")
Like regular cockroaches weren’t bad enough - [now they’re experimenting with putting nanobots in them!](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-logical-robots-injected-cockroaches-190321350.html) Actually, that does sound pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/2 "2014-04-13T18:38:05Z")
Oh, come on, people - they’re putting nanobots in cockroaches! Has no one else ever read any science fiction?!? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/3 "2014-04-13T18:59:38Z")
The technology involved is just astonishing. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/4 "2014-04-13T19:15:46Z")
They couldn’t have pit them in anything cute and fluffy, could they? They had to put them in cockroaches? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/5 "2014-04-13T21:14:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > They couldn’t have pit them in anything cute and fluffy, could they? They had to put them in cockroaches? …it does seem Kafka-esque… ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/6 "2014-04-15T17:40:25Z")
Previous experiments with cockroaches included mounting mini cameras and replacing their antennae with electrodes. The idea was that the electrodes could be used to make the roach change direction, and you could guide it into sensitive locations for surveillance. BTW This is from reputable sources and I think we even had threads on it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/7 "2014-04-15T17:58:19Z")
Christ, like cockroaches need help. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-god-roboroaches/685921/8 "2014-04-15T19:28:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Christ, like cockroaches need help. That was my thought - “Let’s make cockroaches MORE indestructible and able to reproduce and survive anything!”