A Russian tech company claims it can upload flight commands directly into a bird's brain

and convince the pigeon it was its own idea.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

When it comes to surveillance technology, governments have tried just about everything.

Satellites, drones, hidden cameras, the usual suspects.

But one country has decided to take things in a direction that feels less like military

innovation, and more like the opening scene of a dystopian thriller.

So Russia has apparently decided that regular drones are just too boring.

Why use a machine when you can surgically implant a chip into a pigeon's brain and turn

the bird itself into your remote-controlled

surveillance device. I know, I had to read that twice myself. A Russian Neurotechnology

company called Nairi announced in November 2025 that they had begun field testing. And I want

you to really sit with this phrase. a flock of mind-controlled pigeons.

These researchers claim they can now upload flight patterns directly into the bird's brains

by stimulating specific neural regions.

The pigeon takes off from the lab, flies wherever the operators want it to go, and then

returns. Like a homing pigeon, except the homing part, is now someone at a computer deciding

where home is. The obvious question, doesn't this essentially turn the pigeon into a prisoner

in its own body? Nairi's explanation is interesting.

They claim that through their stimulation process, the bird itself genuinely wants to fly

in the directions chosen by researchers.

The pigeon's not being forced, it's been neurologically convinced that this was its idea all along.

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