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Robot Bee

Published on Oct 12, 2012

The robot bee was a quick project that I did a while ago. My 'little' robot bee unfortunately lacks the power of flight but makes up for that with its 350 volt stinger! I built this little bug bot one day out of a few switches, two motors and a battery case. The robot has two antenna that it uses to sense its environment. It the robot collides with a solid object it simply tries to turn around until it is no longer touching whatever it hit and then it continues to move forward again. Not much to this little robot. The stinger, I made from an old disposable camera's flash circuit. The robot also has a microphone built into the left antenna but that doesn't do anything unless you plug it into a computer.
 

RoboBees: An Autonomous Colony of Robotic Pollinators

Uploaded on Aug 18, 2010

From the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference:
Matt Welsh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, discusses how his team of researchers from Harvard, Northeastern, and Centeye is developing a coordinated colony of robotic bees, aptly called RoboBees. The idea is to build a swarm of flapping-wing microrobots that are capable of performing wide-area search, environmental mapping and surveillance, and even pollination. This project involves a wide range of research challenges across many fields, broken down into three categories: body, brain, and colony. Problems in the "body" space include all aspects of the flight apparatus, propulsion, and power supply. The "brain" involves research on low-power electronics, including circuits for sensing and decision-making. Finally, research within the "colony" entails communication and control algorithms that will enable performance well beyond the capabilities of an individual RoboBee. Real bees coordinate to interact with the complex environment using a diversity of sensors, a hierarchy of task delegation, unique communication, and an effective flapping-wing propulsion system. Mimicking these tasks involves many open research problems that drive this project.
 

Robot bees have been created to replace real bees

Published on Mar 23, 2018

Robot Bees will soon take over the world! John Iadarola and Matt Atchity break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!

"The drones would carry pollen from one plant to another, using sensors and cameras to detect the locations of the crops.

First spotted by CB Insights, the robot bee patent appears along five other patents for farming drones, including one that would identify pests and another that would monitor crop health. Walmart did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment."

"The drones would carry pollen from one plant to another, using sensors and cameras to detect the locations of the crops."
First spotted by CB Insights, the robot bee patent appears along five other patents for farming drones, including one that would identify pests and another that would monitor crop health. Walmart did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment."

by Leanna Garfield
March 15, 2018
 
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