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Scientists have developed a laser with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to neutralise cockroaches as a new form of pest control.

The team’s experiments showed that its laser system “enables the immediate and selective neutralisation of individual insects” from a distance of up to 1.2 metres.

You certainly want to be sure to have some remote kill switch for this device, as I would not want to walk up to it to disable it if it has some malfunction. Will also be interesting to see what else it zaps by mistake… although mosquitoes would be great!

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/462446-scientists-make-ai-laser-turret-for-killing-cockroaches.html

#technology #AI #cockroaches #pestcontrol

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's only a matter of time before they approve this on "human sized pests"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

For the tower defense enthusiast.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I legit could use this, but yeah the killswitch is probably a requirement

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2022
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