The robot bee weighs less than a paper clip and pollinates plants at an indoor farm, potentially transforming the future of agriculture. In 2013, Harvard researchers tested the first robotic ...

This Tiny Robot Is Part Bee, Part Crane Fly—and It Finally Has Solid Legs Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the RoboBee, it's a bee-inspired robot that flies by flapping a tiny pair of artificial-muscle-equipped wings.

Researchers build bee robot that can twist. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 / 230523123706.htm. Washington State University.

Bees play a critical role in our ecosystem and food systems, and it’s no secret that their populations are diminishing. While the cause of bee population decline is ongoing, evidence points to ...

The bee's wings are made of carbon fiber and mylar, as well as other light-weight materials for the rest of the body. It weighs over nine times more than your average 10 milligram bee, and is ...

Come 2024, we will equip each hive with a group of six bee-sized robots, which will groom and feed the honeybee queen to affect the number of eggs she lays.

Researchers build bee robot that can twist. Washington State University. Journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics DOI 10.1109/TRO.2022.3218260. Keywords ...