Researchers of these cyborg moths claim that the main objective of developing such technology would be to utilize them in an emergency response situation, and hopefully, this would mean that the moths will not end up getting smashed by a moving car’s windshield, or to have it fly straight into a window at night, or fry itself as you want to fly away from a flame, but its inner nature struggles to follow the command issued from “headquarters”.
Dr. Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State, shared, “In the big picture, we want to know whether we can control the movement of moths for use in applications such as search and rescue operations. The idea would be to attach sensors to moths in order to create a flexible, aerial sensor network that can identify survivors or public health hazards in the wake of a disaster.”