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Australian researchers have equipped giant cockroaches with cameras and drug injectors for rescue missions. Emergency crews promote the “paraborgs” to lead responders and redesign drills around their instincts: rubble is baited with apple slices, human paramedics follow on hands and knees, and ambulance bays become dark cabinets. On the first deployment, the swarm bypasses the patient and rescues a stalled search robot, identifying machines—not roaches—as the fragile life-form.

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