April 2, 200818 yr That Fly on the Wall Could Be an American Cyborg Spy http://www.foxnews.com/images/359438/0_61_032008_CyborgInsect.jpghttp://www.foxnews.com/images/287012/2_61_moth.jpg At some point in the not-too-distant future, a moth may take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp. http://www.foxnews.com/images/312293/1_61_100907_spy_flies1.jpg Witnesses are buzzing about recent sightings of robotic-looking dragonflies seen at Washington and New York political events. And U.S. government and private agencies have admitted to striving for the spy technology, The Washington Post reports, though no one has confessed to deploying the bugged bugs. The creation of insects whose flesh grows around computer parts — known from science fiction as cyborgs — has been described as one of the most ambitious robotics projects ever conceived by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense.
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