Robotic Organic Insect Augmentation Adaptation for Increased Agility

Mankind is advancing at an incredible rate and in doingwould propel the creature five times the distance at a
so is able to modify organic life thru changes andfaster speed and allow it to land without damage to its
manipulation of DNA, RNA, enzymes and proteins.organic frame? Sure this will soon be possible.
Scientists and researchers have also come a longNow then if we take this one step further, we can
way in developing prosthesis devices for injuredenlarge this creature to the size of a small rodent and
humans such as artificial legs, arms, etc. and some ofmodify its DNA for a large stinger too, thus the new
these parts will become better, faster and stronger likeinsect, half organic and half robotic could be used to
the movie the Six Million Dollar Man.guard military assets, nuclear power plants and secure
It makes sense that we not limit these artificial parts toour borders. It will be living off the land and trimming the
only humans for instance if your dog is run over, wellgrass; that is to say a completely self-sustained
then you need to find a way to give him a new legsecurity system, which is happy as a lark fulfilling its
and so we need to be developing these prosthesisgenes while protecting us, with some robotic
devices to serve all the animal kingdom. What aboutengineering to make it even better and report thru
the insect kingdom? We know that with miniaturizationmicro-electronic sensors to a central computer system.
we are now building tiny flying devices about the sizeCombining robotic and organic into a single unit makes
of a triple size dragonfly, which the Unmanned Aerialsense and we ought to start with a species, which is
Vehicle Community is calling MAV or Micro-Airalready at the top of its food chain. One, which is
Vehicles, which can fly totally autonomously.better evolved for life on the surface of the planet
These MAVs are all technology based with no organicthan a soft shelled human. An insect based on a hard
parts. But as other researchers are putting humanshell or semi hard shell system and slighting augmented
brain cells into mice, why not do a little organicthru both robotics and DNA manipulation adaptation for
Bio-Tech engineering and combine the two? A flyingincreased agility might just be the perfect system to
rat; well, not exactly, but how about a flying grassprotect us. Think on this.
hopper, with spring loaded legs that when pushed