From New Scientist:
“Another DARPA-funded group, led by Michel Maharbiz at the University of California, Berkeley, implanted electrodes into the brains of adult green June beetles, near neurons that control flight. When the team delivered pulses of negative voltage to the brain, the beetles’ wing muscles began beating and the bugs took off. A pulse of positive voltage shut the wings down, stopping flight short, and by rapidly switching between these signals, they controlled the insects’ thrust and lift.”
