DragonflEye

The world has been developed & with it now it's possible to control a insect. We can control them like they can't move their eyebrows also. Such human controlled insects are called cyborg insects.

Draper Labs & Howard Hughes Medical Institute is working on such a cyborg insect, the 'DragonflEye'.

How they will control a Dragonfly?

There are interneurons (a kind of messenger neurons, not sensory, not motor) inside Dragonflies which carry high-level steering commands to the wings. By tapping over them the wings are controlled. But as this process is a bit of crude, a gene that adds light sensitive protein (Opsin) to the neurons is added. With this and some other genetical modifications the neurons became activated when light of suitable wavelengths is sent by the interference called Optrode. For the genetical modifications the neurons get lighted up when activated. Thus the Optrode influences the neurons & helps to monitor as well.

The Controller

The controller is a nail sized ultralight solar cell with integrated navigation system will control the cyborg insect. (For now that's all as Draper Labs is not revealing so much about the controller now.)

Now the uses. Draper Labs suggested, "It could be used for guided pollination, payload delivery, reconnaissance and even precision medicine and diagnostics."

"DragonflEye is a totally new kind of micro-aerial vehicle that’s smaller, lighter and stealthier than anything else that’s manmade. This system pushes the boundaries of energy harvesting, motion sensing, algorithms, miniaturization and optogenetics, all in a system small enough for an insect to wear."

Yes, the project's principal investigator, Jesse J. Wheeler said it right. But sometimes it seems weird to make a insect work for you.

But yes this is a new achievement of human kind. We are going towards future.