据《每天邮报》报导，科学家们以马达加斯加甲由为灵感，制造出一款新型遥控甲由机器人。这类机器人是甲由和机器人的混合体，无需充电，可进入危险地区开展环境监测或实行搜救济义务。
While it may sound like something that has crawled out of your nightmares, cyborg cockroaches have arrived as friends rather than foes.
虽然甲由机器人听起来很可怕，可是它其实是人类的同伙而非仇人。
Scientists in Japan have designed a new remote-controlled insect, equipped with a battery 'backpack' that is powered by solar panels.
日本科学家设计了一款新型遥控甲由机器人，它装备了由太阳能电池板供电的电池“背包”。
The cockroach, which is part insect and part machine, is intended to enter hazardous areas, monitor the environment or undertake search and rescue missions without needing to be recharged.
这类甲由机器人是甲由和机器人的混合体，无需充电，适用于进入危险地区，监测环境或施行搜救济义务。
The researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research had to install some components into a tiny pack to allow for all the roach's natural movements.
来源于RIKEN Cluster的研讨人员进行了开创性的研讨，他们必须将一些组件安装到一个小背包中，以便让甲由自由行动。
Lead author Kenjiro Fukuda said: 'The body-mounted ultrathin organic solar cell module achieves a power output of 17.2 mW, which is more than 50 times larger than the power output of current state-of-the art energy harvesting devices on living insects.'
研究报告的重要作者福田健次郎称：“安装在甲由机器人身体上的超薄有机太阳能电池模块的输出功率为17.2兆瓦，比现阶段最进步前辈的虫豸能量收集装配的输出功率横跨50多倍。”
Famously able to survive a nuclear war, cockroaches have been the inspiration for a number of technologies in recent years.
有目共睹，甲由可以正在核战争中幸存下来，近年来，它一直是很多技能的灵感滥觞。
Different teams of scientists have designed remote-controlled robo-bugs that can scale walls, carry objects and find humans during search-and-rescue missions.
一些科学家团队设计了可遥控的虫豸机器人，它们能够正在搜救济使命中穿墙、携带物体和寻觅人类。
The cockroaches are still alive, but wires attached to their two 'cerci' - sensory organs on the end of their abdomens - send electrical impulses that cause the insect to move right or left.
甲由机器人是有性命的，但连接在甲由腹部末尾的两个感觉器官“尾蚴”上的电线收回电脉冲，操纵它摆布挪动。
A battery is necessary for the sending and receiving of these electrical signals, which needs to be charged up.
发送和吸收这一些电流旌旗灯号须要电池，而电池须要充电。
While it's possible to build docking stations for recharging the battery, the need to return and recharge could disrupt time-sensitive missions.
虽然能够制作充电站为电池充电，但返回充电也许会使时候紧急的使命停止。
The RIKEN team wanted to create a more practical version that did not need to return to a docking station when it ran out of power.
RIKEN团队想要打造一个更有用的甲由机器人，正在电源耗尽时不需要返回充电站。
Therefore, they designed an on-board solar cell that could continuously ensure that the cockroach stays charged while it works.
是以，他们设计了一种太阳能电池，能够延续确保甲由正在事情时坚持充电。
However, cockroaches have a limited surface area available for all the components necessary to move its legs and keep it powered.
然而，甲由的巨细限定了它能够携带的腿部遥控组件的巨细。
The solution, published in npj Flexible Electronics, was to design a special 'backpack' that could neatly carry both the wireless leg-control module and rechargeable lithium polymer battery.
因而研究人员设计了一种特别的背包，以便于甲由携带遥控模块和可充电锂聚合物电池。这一研究成果揭橥正在《npj-柔性电子》上。
This was attached to the top of the insect on its thorax, and was 3D printed to fit perfectly to the curved surface of the Madagascar cockroach or Gromphadorhina portentosa.
研究人员将背包固定在甲由的胸腹上部，并应用3D打印手艺使其完美贴合马达加斯加甲由的身体。
It allowed for this electronic device to be stably mounted on the insect for over a month, while leaving space elsewhere on the body to implant the solar panel.
这类电子设备能够固定在甲由身上一个多月，与此同时还留出空间为甲由植入太阳能电池板。
The 0.004 mm thick organic solar cell module was mounted on the dorsal side of the roach's abdomen.
0.004毫米厚的有机太阳能电池模块安装在甲由腹部的背侧。