Pentagon's Cyborg Insects All Grown Up

For years, now, Pentagon-backed researchers have been trying to create cyborg insects that could serve as living, remote-controlled spies.  The problem is, those modified bugs never survived long enough to be useful.  Now, Georgia Tech professor Robert Michelson says he's managed to get the bug 'borgs to live into adulthood. 

DARPA's Hi-MEMS program aims to implant place micro-mechanical systems [MEMS] "inside the insects during the early stages of metamorphosis," the agency explains.  That way, as the bugs get older, tissues grow around -- and fuse together with -- the tiny machines.