Weilun Li never imagined what he’d be doing as a third-year PhD student in electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
“It’s like a Marvel movie,” said Li. “To have a superhero."
It’s not Spiderman, Antman or The Wasp - because those characters are for the comics. Rather, Li is working on very real cyborg locusts!
“It’s actually more simple and more realistic than I thought."
That’s because locusts seem to have superpowers with their remarkable sensing capabilities, making locusts an engineering marvel. They possess superior neural responses to follow a specific odor, such as the bomb-sniffing locusts engineered at Washington University.
The National Science Foundation awarded the research group $4.3 million to help them develop the cyborg locusts and study odor-guided navigation.
“The goal for the application of the electronic nose is to noninvasively sense chemicals for different applications: biomedicine, Homeland Security, environmental monitoring.



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