Robots are already waiting
While going through some of my old papers, I came across a clipping that talks about a conference in Texas where it was announced that scientists have succeeded in making miniature bees that could completely replace natural bees, as well as their effects.
According to leading technology experts the fleet of bee-robots in the future could be moved to areas where there are no natural bees.
photo: generated by AI
At the conference it is also said that there is already a technology that could control mini drones, that is, bees-robots that can smoothly pollinated crops.
Earlier, Japanese scientists developed drone of the size of a dragonfly that could blossom the lily flower
American scientists have also been involved in the development of miniature drones.
They have developed a bee-robot that operates as many as 120 times per second.
photo: Harvard Microrobotics Lab
Professor Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota is one of the world's leading experts in that field of technology. At the conference he told that if they were used in the right way miniature robots could offer solutions to a chronic lack of food. He also said that it is expected that within two years United States will approve funding for such projects.
As it is already known, areas such as California and the West lose a lot of trees. If you lose trees and forests, that's the beginning you'll lose insects, birds and animals.
The Japanese prototype of the bee-robot was produced by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo.
The researchers now intend to produce even less robotic bees that would help them with their goals.
I do not want to diminish scientists work. That is great achievement, and they made a good "backup" plan in the case of extinction bees. That is great work, and it is better to research such things than to use money in developing weapons.
But I would rather invest money in environmental protection and protecting the bees "Better safe than sorry".
And I'm thinking that since it's been a few years since that conference, I have to wonder how far they've come and whether I'll find out tomorrow that the mosquito that bit me was actually a robot that took my DNA.
