Insect cyborgs to the rescue?

Okay, tell us this doesn't sound like the set-up for a really creepy sci-fi novel where everything goes wrong: Insect cyborgs used as emergency first-responders. Excerpt: Professor Khalil Najafi, the chair of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Erkan Aktakka are finding ways to harvest energy from insects, and take the utility of the miniature cyborgs to the next level. "Through energy scavenging, we could potentially power cameras, microphones and other sensors and communications equipment that an insect could carry aboard a tiny backpack," Najafi said. "We could then send these 'bugged' bugs into dangerous or enclosed environments where we would not want humans to go." Read the rest of the story here.