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Synthetic Pollenizer uses 3D-printed robotic flowers to help save bees

Over the last 20 years we’ve seen a dramatic decline in bee populations as a result of harmful pesticides and other environmental challenges. So, Brisbane’s Michael Candy proposed a unique solution. T... read more

3D printed robotic flowers could save bee populations

Fortunately, many people and organizations are coming up with ideas to help ... uses robotic 3D printed flowers that are equipped with both pollen and nectar. These artificial flowers are meant to be ... read more

3-D Printed Flowers May Help Save the Bee Population

But an interesting project at the intersection of 3-D printing, robotics ... the Synthetic Polleniser is exactly that: a human-engineered method that offers bees a safer way to pollinate flowers so th... read more

3D Printed Robotic Flowers Draw Bees for Safe Pollination

Candy’s Synthetic Pollenizer ... flowers of the future hold both pollen and nectar, and Candy made them to be placed outside in the midst of normal greenery, drawing bees. Candy used the rapeseed spec... read more

NASA Plans to Grow First Plants on the Moon

NASA is teaming up with students and private space companies to grow the first plants on the moon’s surface starting ... The team plans to hitchhike on the robotic spacecraft of whichever private comp... read more

10 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that will appear by the 2030s

Here are 10 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that ... to use them we’ll use natural language and haptic technologies (i.e. tactile feedback). Or better yet, these devices will be endowed with a c... read more

Marc Prosser

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems’ rapid advances are continually crossing rows off the list of things humans do better than our computer compatriots. AI has bested us at board games like chess and ... read more

CHINA.new

China... an ancient civilization emerges from the dark shadows of history to assume her rightful place in the sun as a world superpower. The Middle Kingdom has given us paper, gunpowder, and low, low ... read more

Termite-inspired building bots able to self-organise

Their creators hope that, in future, similar autonomous machines could be used to ... filmed the robots recovering from unexpected changes made to the structures they were building. "When many agents ... read more

We Have a Problem: Food Supply

Perhaps robots are an answer to a different problem. This little bot, already entered in the 2015 Hackaday Prize, is an experiment with automatic weed elimination versus the use of herbicides. But it ... read more

Researchers Use 3D Printing to Learn How Orchids are Tricking Insects

It’s the perfect plant for the lazy or forgetful indoor gardener with a habit of killing plants; these particular cultivated ... it doesn’t smell like fungus or worse. Discuss in the 3D Printed Orchid ... read more

Not Exactly Rocket Science

Turn the lights off and your speakers up. Ready? Now watch this video of Earth from the International Space Station This is wonderful. Two scientists – SciCurious and Kate Clancy – critique a paper on ... read more