In 1980, when Iran and Iraq went to war, the Revolutionary Guard acted as human waves in some of the toughest battles.

NPR: The Evolution of Iran's Revolutionary Guard

Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).

FORBES: Magazine Article

Self-adhesive electronics devices thinner than the diameter of a human hair can monitor the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity.

FORBES: Electronic Devices Packaged in Synthetic Skin