Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9’s tips forum. This week, we’ve got cyborg animals, mega-piranhas, eco-skyscrapers, awesome treehouses, and much more! If you want to post a ...

The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web.

This study provides a comprehensive overview of cyborg animals within the framework of animal taxonomy, summarizing the current state of research from a zoological perspective. Subsequently, the ...

Roboticists frequently turn to nature for inspiration for their inventions, reverse engineering the traits that evolution has developed over millennia. Others are taking a shortcut by simply ...

THE next time a moth alights on your window sill, watch what you say. Sure, it may look like an innocent visitor, irresistibly drawn to the light in your room, but it could actually be a spy – one of ...

The year is 2040. You hunker down with your fellow human survivors, listening for the sound of your enemy. The cyber-bugs ...

While the most powerful robots are still learning to walk, millions of years of evolution has made animals masters of tricky terrain. To take advantage of this scientists are exploring ways to augment ...

Though the tools are new, Anthes says, the ethical questions are not A cyborg beetle or a pet fish engineered to glow under ultraviolet light might sound like something you’d see in a movie about the ...

Science writer Emily Anthes has a new book out that covers all the ways we’re tinkering with animals and turning them into cyborgs, ready to obey our every whim. And, she reports, we’ve gotten a lot ...