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Researcher
Ethan Jackson places the Project Premonition mosquito trap in the wild in this
handout photo obtained by Reuters June 30, 2017. Microsoft/Handout via REUTERS
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American technology companies are bringing
automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes in a bid to
halt the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne maladies worldwide.
Firms including Microsoft Corp and California
life sciences company Verily are forming partnerships with public health
officials in several U.S. states to test new high-tech tools.
In Texas, Microsoft is testing a smart trap to
isolate and capture Aedes aegypti
mosquitoes, known Zika carriers, for study by entomologists to give them a jump
on predicting outbreaks.
Verily, Alphabet's life sciences division based in Mountain View, California, is speeding the process for creating sterile male mosquitoes to mate with females in the wild, offering a form of birth control for the species.
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