MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed advanced robotic insects that could aid farming through artificial pollination. They could prove especially useful in ...

To turn this vision into reality, researchers at MIT are working on robotic insects that might one day emerge from mechanical hives to perform precise pollination tasks on a large scale.

Fast and agile robotic insects mimic bees, aiding crop pollination and tackling population decline and food security risks.

This basic sounding concept involves extremely complex science and engineering. “Insects aren’t built like robots,” Humbert said. “If I have a robot and I want it to perceive the environment, I tend ...

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A team of researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has created a ...

In lab tests, swarms of 20 cyborg cockroaches navigated complex terrain using a new algorithm mimicking human group ...

You can see the MIT-developed drone in action in the YouTube video below. Tiny insect-inspired robot can perform death-defying acrobatics - YouTube A small flying drone. It weighs just 750mg and ...

The research has been published in Science Robotics. "In 2020, our team demonstrated autonomous insect-scale crawling robots, but making untethered ultra-thin robots for aquatic environments is a ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed ...