Attack of the cyborg beetles

Attack of the cyborg beetles — the latest hairbrained scheme of Ernst Stavros Blofeld: Because we cannot seem to let nature be, we’ve gotten cloning in the back and now we’d like to turn insects into drones (the helicopter kind — not males of insect species). Vice’s Motherboard travelled to Singapore, where a research team is hijacking the nervous systems of insects to control them remotely — ostensibly to turn use them in search and rescue operations. From the what the researchers said, the test subjects are consciously attempting to resist the control signals but can’t. Sounds a lot like the plot of a James Bond villain (watch, runtime: 2:56).