When it comes to developing robotic bugs, the beautiful minds at MIT can sometimes come off as a bit batty, if not downright flitty.
LABORING TO LAUNCH: It can be among the dirtiest jobs going but one mariners annually take to heart, speaking of prepping dry-docked fishing vessels for the fast-approaching boating season. Next comes the launch. (Photo by Ryan Morrill)
A team of the institute’s most gifted geeks has been enthusiastically perfecting a mechanical replacement for honeybees, the world’s prime pollinators, now reduced to near nothingness in America, leaving farmers in want of pollinators.
The decline of essential pollinating insects could threaten one third of the food we eat – but not if MIT’s miniaturized bug bots begin to…
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