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dot com and secure your seats today it's monday october 10th. I'm Jackson Bird today. Just in time for Halloween, we've got cyborg

cockroaches. As terrifying as it sounds, though, they might actually end up saving our lives one day.

Plus, a roundup of recommendations for celebrating indigenous people today and

every day, and an upcoming slasher horror version of The Grinch. Here's some cool stuff for your

ride home. Remember birds aren't real?

The satirical activist movement that claims the U.S. government killed millions of birds back in the 60s and replaced them with surveillance drones that just look like the real animals.

I'll put a link in the show notes to a segment I did on Birds Aren't Real a while back in case you

missed it. But the idea of roaming, animal-mimicking autonomos with distinct objectives might not be

simply the realm of satire or science fiction for long. Researchers around the world are working on

different types of insect, robots, and cyborgs that could assist in multiple fields, from emergency response and energy to farming.

According to the Washington Post, there are roughly three different categories in this field.

You've got fully robotic insects that merely replicate the size and motion of insects.

There's also electronics designed to enhance real living insects. That's sort of the cyborg one.

And finally, electronics that use parts of a live insect like an antenna connected to a machine.

Hulking anthropomorphic robots or even boxy ones with crane-like arms are limited in detail-oriented

work and mobility.

So the idea of insect-sized robots has been around for a while, but advances over the last decade

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