'Kinect'ed Cockroaches Crawl on Demand

In preparation for the Xbox One, Microsoft has been steadily working on the next version of the Kinect, the company's motion tracking camera. Scientists, on the other hand, have been fiddling with the old Kinect almost since it was released two and a half years ago. It's been used to visualize proteins and activate Tesla coils. The latest breakthrough: putting cockroaches on autopilot. Last year, Alper Bozkurt and his lab at North Carolina State University showed that a cockroach could be pilote...