Bomb-Sniffing Locusts

Navy Grants $750,000 to Develop Bomb-Sniffing Locusts

Travis M. Andrews | July 6, 2016

Locusts came to fame as agents of destruction during the eighth plague of Egypt in the Bible, but some researchers envision a new occupation for the humble insects: cyborg bomb detectors.
Yes, you read that correctly. The Office of Naval Research has given Washington University in St. Louis associate biomedical engineering professor Baranidharan Raman and his team a $750,000, three-year grant to continue his research into turning ordinary locusts into military tools.
The idea is simple, even if the execution is not. 

(The US navy expects to have bomb-sniffing locusts within a year. July 6, 2016) Source: http://qz.com/724449/the-us-navy-expects-to-have-bomb-sniffing-locusts-within-a-year/

<more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/06/navy-grants-750000-to-develop-cyborg-locusts-to-sniff-out-bombs/; related articles and links: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a21718/bomb-sniffing-cyborg-locusts/ (The Military is Developing Bomb-Sniffing Cyborg Locusts. ​It's exactly as weird as it sounds. July 7, 2016) and https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/engineers-use-cyborg-insects-biorobotic-sensing-machines/ (Engineers to use cyborg insects as biorobotic sensing machines. June 28, 2016)>