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- initialism US, military Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS): A
DARPA project to control insect locomotion by placing a mechanical system inside an insect.
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The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) project is how DARPA plans to achieve this.
Spy Bugs: The Next Generation Of Surveillance? | Disinformation 2008
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To overcome this hurdle, the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems HI-MEMS program is sponsoring research into surgically implanting microchips straight into insects as they grow, intertwining their nerves and muscles with circuitry that can then steer the critters.
Archive 2009-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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To overcome this hurdle, the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems HI-MEMS program is sponsoring research into surgically implanting microchips straight into insects as they grow, intertwining their nerves and muscles with circuitry that can then steer the critters.
Cybugs Walter Jon Williams 2009
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To overcome this hurdle, the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems HI-MEMS program is sponsoring research into surgically implanting microchips straight into insects as they grow, intertwining their nerves and muscles with circuitry that can then steer the critters.
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The researchers, who are working with DARPA's HI-MEMS program, have developed a prototype that allows the implants of cyborg beetles to draw power from the beat of the beetle's wings.
Forbes.com: News Alex Knapp 2011
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According to the HI-MEMS website, "The intimate control of insects with embedded microsystems will enable insect cyborgs, which could carry one or more sensors, such as a microphone or a gas sensor, to relay back information gathered from the target destination."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Their "HI-MEMS" project inserts a computer chip into an insect pupae, and the chip becomes connected to the body as the insect develops.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"Since a majority of the tissue development in insects occurs in the later stages of metamorphosis, the renewed tissue growth around the MEMS will tend to heal, and form a reliable and stable tissue-machine interface," says the HI-MEMS website.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Their "HI-MEMS" project inserts a computer chip into an insect pupae, and the chip becomes connected to the body as the insect develops.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"Since a majority of the tissue development in insects occurs in the later stages of metamorphosis, the renewed tissue growth around the MEMS will tend to heal, and form a reliable and stable tissue-machine interface," says the HI-MEMS website.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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