Singapore's Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects 

Amazon can't wait to use this on its warehouse workers.

Imagine yourself being a prisoner in your own body. It doesn't matter that they are bugs, that's jacked up.

"... we even electrically stimulated it for 7 days in a row, and it didn't die." Yeah not helping...

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”

"We use a wii remote " is probably the scarier aspect of all this

This is both impressive and terrifying. Human progress in a nutshell.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

This is disgusting. They're living beings too and can feel pain. Imagine someone else did this to your body for their own interests. The fact that this is not illegal is disgusting. The fact that it has more upvotes than downvotes is also extremely disappointing.

Guy: "We can attach stuff to beetle and save the world peacefully." Military: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Thank you for 1k likes. :)

guy: "can i try again?" beetle: "no pls"

I can't begin to imagine how painful this is for the little creature.

i feel so bad for that beetle, even if it's not a complex creature like us.. I raise monarch butterflies, and they are amazing animals that can learn and all behave differently.

Me thinking "how can this be more unethical?" Student: We use a Wii control LOL

"It struggles but it still obeys" Governments worldwide have been saying this about their people for hundreds of years

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"

Theoretically i think this could be used to allow people paralyzed due to nerve damage to move

20years later : controlling people wirelessly using radio frequency

The way he talked about it fighting but still obeying was haunting.

This is a torture, plain and simple. Science without ethics.

Extremely impressive and very sad for the insects - I really do hope insects are so basic that they aren’t really conscious. But v creepy.

"It struggles but it still obeys" Somebody get this man on some kinda watchlist

So this is what happens to the kids who burn bugs with magnifying glasses

I love how the very last statement was “yep we’re going to use it to hunt people….also use it to locate people peacefully (obvious sarcasm).”😂

For everyone blindly amazed by advancements in technology: we should pay attention to testing methods and limits in this field. Notice they said they stimulated a living thing, albeit just an insect, for 7 DAYS STRAIGHT just to see how long they could. Would it be crazy to think that someone or group of some organized group of individuals out there might want to test this on people.

The way he stressed on PEACEFUL applications was highly sus

The implications of this are terrifying

I see so many people feeling bad for this beetle, you do realize that most people kill bugs for no reason. as far as the beetle is concerned its getting food and not becoming food. A world where suffering doesn't exist would be great, but suffering is a constant in nature, life consumes and destroys life. Have any of you seen parasitic wasps or cats? both torture their victims as a part of their place in nature, cats being worse since its driven by more than instinct and isn't necessary for survival. As humans we are often convinced that we are above nature, but just like any other animal we are molded by it. all of our actions and all of our thoughts are ultimately from how we evolved as a species, and as we are part of nature we cause suffering to survive. However we can mitigate it and try to be as humane as possible, we will never get there without sacrifices, we just need to weigh the pros and cons of our actions.

I just realise there was a Lego brick at the bottom of the beetle💀

The early stages of a super villain company.

"So you have to feed it, to be able to keep doing this" [ *Jeff Bezos has left the chat* ]

5 years later and his closing statement is reality

This is heartbreakingly inhumane. “ so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if the should” how far would they go.

Guest : "so it doesn't really hurt." Host: "No." Beetle: "Yes God damnit it hurts!"

This video will be remembered when the Insects Overlords arrive.

"Technology and nature might become indistinguishable" Am i the only one who thinks this doesn t sound right? I mean it doesn t seem normal i don t know why.

For everyone worried about them doing this with humans, they already did. Your holding your remote control right now

Unbelievably disturbing.

This is what a real-life supervillain lair looks like.

I am both impressed and horrified - mainly the latter. At first, I thought the beetle was dead or a shell, and they were using tech to control or simulate the beetle's movements. This, however, is a whole other level. How many villains want robot-controlled animals? Sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads or ill-tempered, mutated seabass, for example...

People in the comments: “This is so unethical, the beetle must be suffering.” Beetle, actually: >monkey play >get food >no hungry >free housing >no predator >happy

In the wrong hands, one day someone can fly a mosquito with a virus and inject someone without them knowing

As impressive as this is, it requires someone with a dead stare like this guy to get this job done

The beetle 🪲 in the court room: “THE HUMANS MADE ME DO IT!”

I felt so much pain for this little creature ! What an horrible thing to do to a living body !!😪

"We are very serious to use this cyborg beetle for peaceful application" *Sounds just like somebody who's not going to use these cyborg beetles for peaceful applications*

“It struggles, but it still it obeys”… described human condition of living…

"So, it doesn't really hurt" "No...." Beetle: Thank you, Science

How is this "ok" ? This is torture, and the way they don't care about the insect is terrifying...

Pretending this is for rescue missions lol

"So the beatle does not get used to it or something?" "No, no, I do it like this for 7 seven days and the beetle still obeys the machine" Right there I realized this is fcked up

Can't wait to see the youtube video that the Beetle posts about it's experience being kidnapped and turned, temporarily, into a robot.

"So it doesn't really hurt?" "No." Me- Doubt

"does it hurt the beetle?" "no" Proceeds to drive beetle straight into the wall while its flying. :'D

"so how unethical do you want this to be?" "yes"

Fell like i'm watching a origin story of a master villain.. Dudes got the looks and personality of a serial killer!

This is terrifying just imagine where if you could control a human some day

Can't believe it's been almost 3 years and I'm seeing this for the first time. I bet they are much more advanced with their research and application opportunities by now

Research like this no matter how well intended ends up being used for unimaginably horrific things.

I don't know what to think. Maybe because its an otherwise unharmed animal I'm slightly disturbed, but for sufferers of paralysis, this is pretty useful. Interesting to present this tech packaged in this way to raise a debate, Vice.

This is evil. Imagine what kind of research is going on behind closed doors

"Insects are not secret government spy drones!" also insects:

Yo…imagine another universe where the beetle is actually doing this same experiment on a human 🤯

This is amazing, imagine what future tech can be made from this base (this experiment). Can't wait to make myself clipping out of the world in 2077.

cyberpunk 2077 ❌ cyberpunk 2019 ✅

I never want to see a world where technology and nature are indistinguishable.

The militarys gonna use this on people Guy 1 - "Is he trying to stop these signals?" Guy 2 - "Yes but he still obeys"

Guy: We can harness the mind of a bug at will, and force it to our bidding. Bug: KILL ME!!

This seems kind of horrific when we could focus on engineering small robots with limbs

"Hey can i try again" saying that as he smile feel like hes some sort of psycho villain in some movie lmao

This is incredible, but I just can't shake the feeling of sadness for those little creatures.

I remember reading somewhere on google that insects don't feel pain according to insect neurologists (or whatever they are called,) but they might feel discomfort.

Everybody gangsta untill a beatle controlled by FBI enters your house.

Now imagine a human strapped to a table moving their arms/legs for 7 days straight. 😰

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

This is kinda eerie. Not being in control of your body and controlled by a FREAKING Wii remote.

"We might be heading towards a future where technology and nature might become indistinguishable " scariest sentence out of this whole video!

Kind of scary to think this could move to larger mammals or even...humans in the next few decades

This is not amazing, we all know if it can be militarized, it will be.

Nobody: birds aren't real Singapore: next its bugs. Usa: next its our population

Imagine a tiger rigged like this, bloody hell, add a few more and it can chase, bite and stop with a remote control. Reminds me of Doc Terror and Hacker from Centurions.

Imagine waking up one day and your body just starts doing its own things

From "not dying right after implantation" to "it doesn't really hurt" is quite a leap

6:40 Man: Hey it worked! It went right! Beetle: Ouch... I dont want to live in this planet anymore...

The fact that more people like this video than not, is the sad indication of where our species is failing.

This exist The governments: "Shit boy, the squirrels are outdated!"

Wait till they add cameras...Who needs privacy right haha

"Where does Hiroshi find the time to keep inventing new evil machines?!"

If regular people can do something like this, how much the gov has stepped far ahead

“Cyborg zombie bugs” seems totally ethical. I mean, it’s not like they are modifying virus variants through “gain of function” research or anything.

How is this not animal torture?

This is absolutely horrible. They laugh at it, trying to take control of its own body.

"Making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack. Can't fret over every egg."

This is the stuff of nightmares - imagine the perspective of the beetle. We're not even close to understanding the horrors we are imposing on all other species of the planet.

This should be illegal... At first I thought those were just robots, not living insects. So messed up. Poor bugs.

“So it doesn’t really hurt?” “No! Shut up!”

6:38 *Beetle fly and smashes against a wall* Guy: Hey, it worked! :D

Its now 3 years later and I can only think the advancements have gotten so much better by now.

Stimulating nerve receptors to elicit a response is equivalent to you consciously watching your limbs have a mind of their own. Probably a bit unethical but nevertheless dope af!!

beetle get tortured for 7 days humans: this is so fucking cool

Humans need to prove that they deserve to be the dominant species, this doesn’t prove that.