Russian Company Claims to Have Developed Remote-Controlled Cyborg Spy Pigeons

Russian bird bio-drones begin real-world testing

While the company insists its mission is purely to serve utilities, logistics, agriculture, and emergency response, the potential to adapt the technology for military use is hard to ignore.

How Russia uses neural chips to turn live pigeons into drones

Birds have cameras strapped to chests and flight path dictated with a remote control

Russia unveils cyborg spy pigeons with 'remote-control brains' amid Ukraine conflict

A Russian tech start-up is implanting chips into pigeons' brains for spying purposes amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and simmering tensions with the West.Under a project codenamed PJN-1, chips will be installed into the brains of the common birds, whilst the bodies will be fitted with cameras where operators have the ability to alter the bird’s flight path.The technology is being developed by Russian start-up Neiry Group, who describe the p…

Russia puts chips in brains of ‘spy’ pigeons as Mad Vlad wants tech dominance

A Russian start-up company reckons it can use the urban pests in situations where mechanical drones may be limited and already has plans to expand to ravens and seagulls

Drone-pigeons, Putin’s daughter and a plan to control minds

A Kremlin-backed technology company with close links to the president’s daughter claims to have implanted chips in birds to turn them into living drones