GoKawiilAs summer arrives, and mosquitoes celebrate another season of bloody conquest, you might be thinking, "Why do we even have all this AI tech if it can't do a single thing about these airborne pests?" There are plenty of reasons to complain about artificial intelligence, but its failure to fight mosquitoes is no longer one of them.
Using machine learning, inventor Steven Cheng has developed a lethal series of prototypes designed to hunt down and zap the blood-sucking pests with lasers. Cheng has been chronicling the project on X, where he shares videos of his mobile mosquito defense system.
Built version 3.0 of AI mosquito defense system during the holiday.
Now equipped with multi-sensor tracking, a redesigned high-speed gimbal, and a toy Gatling-style launcher for maximum mosquito elimination efficiency
0.6s full rotation.
0.001° precision. pic.twitter.com/0io4G3SIxx — Steven Cheng (@stevencheng) May 28, 2026
Cheng said in his posts that he spent four months developing an "artillery cannon guided by computer vision + deep learning" as "the ultimate mosquito killer."
It uses a Canon digital single-lens reflex camera with a high-magnification zoom lens and software to identify mosquitoes. The research phase, he said in a video, resulted in "countless bites all over my body."
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