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https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mit-robot-bees-break-pollination-record
“Compared to the old robot, we can now generate control torque three times larger than before, which is why we can do very sophisticated and very accurate path-finding flights,” said Chen in a statement
#science #bees #iforonewelcomeourrobotoverlords #thisisfine
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Ooohhh...they're available on Amazon
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IDontGiveAMousesDonkey
Does their honey taste metallic, or more oily?
ispendtomuchtimehere
there's a pretty good Black Mirror about this..
BlastyMcBlastblast
Isaac Asimov wrote about robotic insects & birds back in the '70s
YuffieK
Rubber band ornithopter toys were around in the 1870's
jimhotep
Every scientific generation has its version of "bee labor", and an unfortunate issue remains in all of these scenarios. Scale. We cannot produce the numbers needed to offset bee populations. While this makes it work in a closed or closed environment, we can't create a trillion bees by hand.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
What we can do is use them to monitor and protect a colony possible.