As if Cockroaches aren’t resilient enough already, Russian scientists have gone and bred super space cockroaches. Fanfuckingtastic.
Cosmic cockroaches faster developers, Russian scientists say
“Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than ‘terrestrial’ ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday.
The research team has been monitoring the cockroaches [...]

Continuing on the theme of insect controlled robots, we have the Cockroach-run robot created by Garnet Hertz.
Link: Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot
There is a ton of information and multimedia content on the site, so check it out. The author’s has some interesting comments under the heading Why are you doing this project?. One that [...]