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Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser

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Upping the power could be quite effective.

I run a 100w laser cutter for various projects and over this summer we had quite a few wasps coming in & out of the building.

I can confirm that at 50% power a wasp flying through the unfocused beam loses the majority of it's wing surface (and ends up walking)

at 75% power a wasp flying through the beam ends up as several parts of wasp and a puff of smoke

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