The giant hissing cockroach is not a creature most people would want to encounter in the dark, let alone pick up and stroke its polished, mahogany-coloured back. After just a few petting sessions ...

SWARM Biotactics is creating miniature devices mounted on actual Madagascar hissing cockroaches, effectively creating an army ...

The most common pet roach is the hissing cockroach, 2 to 3 inches long. Its name comes from the sound it makes when disturbed, although it may lose that habit when it gets used to being handled.

In Japan, Madagascar hissing cockroaches have been fitted with electronic “backpacks,” which allow them to be controlled remotely by researchers.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches can reach nearly 4 inches long and are the world's largest roach species, according to the zoo, but are not considered pests as they rarely enter people's homes.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have built the world's first automated cyborg insect ...

The zoo said the original Name-a-Roach event was launched in 2011, and “thousands of hopeless romantics from around the world have named the zoo’s Madagascar hissing cockroaches after friends ...