Well, DARPA is at it again and this time instead of sharks we’re trying to control insects. Why would you want to be able to control an insect? It’s cool, obviously. Seriously though, the idea would be to introduce small control circuitry into the insects during the larval stage when the insect would be able to safely integrate a foriegn object into it’s body, and use this MEM to control the movements of the insect and receive sensor readings from it. Will it work? Maybe. Should we be doing it? Probably not. Will we do it anyways? Absolutely. Read the full story on the BBC.