“This flying robot can be wirelessly controlled to approach and hit a designated target, mimicking the mechanism of pollination as a bee collects nectar and flies away,” said Liwei ...

Every year on May 20th, we celebrate World Bee Day — a holiday dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of bees ...

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. It has a wingspan of less than 3 cm (1.2 in ...

The robot doesn’t look very bee-like to a human eye. Its body is simply a small, flexible tube with a fluttering “wing.” But it’s connected to a motor outside the hive that can steer and ...

Researchers initially developed a two-winged robotic bee, but it was limited in its movement. In 2019, Pérez-Arancibia and two of his PhD students for the first time built a four-winged robot ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.

[Related: Bee brains could teach robots to make split-second decisions.] As detailed in their preprint paper submitted in late October, the team first attached a colored LED light alongside an ...