Tiny, Robotic Bees Could Change the World | National Geographic

Robert Wood, a National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and award-winning engineer, is working on entirely new classes of robots-including a fleet of tiny, robotic bees-that may one day transform space exploration, agriculture, and search-and-rescue operations.
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[@JarvisBaileyVA]

Meanwhile Kanye just wants a robotic hit squad of bees

[@fatpanda9699]

Has no one seen that episode of black mirror?

[@ismailramdan5095]

Which one

[@Thugesh]

@@ismailramdan5095 hated in the nation

[@ismailramdan5095]

@@Thugesh Thank you.

[@ismailramdan5095]

@Alycia Goode I think, that strong elektromagnets will damage the human body.

[@wendybell9007]

Scotch Mercedes its not really obvious its a cumulative effect and can effect different people in different ways,cancer, infertility etc. It will effect the smallest first thats why the small flying insects the bees and small birds are dying off. Small children will be affected with masts in school grounds . Not in it for an argument just sharing whats been going on in Gateshead where i live

[@Andy-ws2ux]

Why does everybody think Robot = End of Humanity? This is a cool, innovative project and I look forward to anymore developments

[@RomoJL94]

Haven't you seen what happens in The Terminator? 🙄

[@jwilson544]

just because sometimes can happen doesn't mean it will happen

[@valravhknight1914]

@@RomoJL94 or Matrix, or BLAME! or Battlestar Galactica...

[@austinstino7571]

But why kill the other bees we need them. And have you not watched black mirror l.

[@utkarshchauhan4795]

Also in Detroit became human

[@PantsingtonHardware]

This told me close to absolutely nothing about this project. It was a nothing video.

[@lIIlllIIIl]

Bruh he even said at the ending "investing in the unknown is the best route to make fundamental scientific advancements" Also use your imagination. Your comment is 6 years old but even then it was said that bees are dying out. What could we use roboter bees for, hmm, I wonder?

[@GermanGameAdviser]

@@lIIlllIIIl hm somewhere i heard that if (edit)commercial(/edit) bees would die out like a thanos snap..... literally nothing of a hysteria scale bad whatever event (that everybody was thaught would happen) would happen.

[@sbdgrwnmrw6085]

a robotic insect with a camera attached to it.... passing into areas where.... hmmm?

[@cryaboutit7499]

To anyone making negative comments…the bees gon get you.

[@xinlim1844]

Please upload more videos featuring recent inventions inspired by nature! :) I can't imagine the amount of hard work that goes into this, staying in the lab the entire day staring at and making that tiny robot over and over again and doing all that testing and data analysis... Hopefully the fruits of their labor (pun intended) will show in the near future!

[@thatmaheshrs]

fantastic vid. amazing inventions. wishing mr wood and his team all the best with their r&d.

[@leeburkett9906]

Here's the thing: Since Monsanto is busy killing all the bees, the development of robotic bees would seem to be a spectacular answer to the need to keep growing food. Unless we stop to consider that, at the point where robotic bees become necessary to fulfill a function that nature has been doing for millions of years, we discover that now it's the people who make the bees that will be making the decisions as to who gets food. Imagine the power of the union of Agri-business and Agri-robotics. Of course we could just stop Monsanto from destroying the natural world, as an alternative. Just sayin ... .

[@loudencate-cribari158]

The Robotbees would pollinate more efficiently than the actual bees. The bees don't pollinate on purpose they are only going to eat. While these robobees wuld be programmed to run a cycle that pollinates all of the plants in the field as opposed to the bee bees that are going to near random plants at random times to eat.

[@Rainkit]

They aren't being made to replace bees

[@melaniecarr8834]

I'm curious how much this is going to cost, what happens when a bird tries to eat them?

[@austinstino7571]

@@loudencate-cribari158 there is a reason why the bees have been there.

[@phungsa]

Did you even here why these robotic bees are used for ?? Surely not food.

[@mentorpozhegu]

Interesting video good luck and thank you for sharing.

[@mk-rb4xl]

The progress of science and technology is wonderful, isn't it? If I was a student of an engineering department, I wanted to do such study.

[@JadedVegas]

This is a great idea, as long as it doesn't interfere or harm any bees in the process...

[@leotills3017]

Simply amazing.

[@jeanjacquesseidelbaum2140]

"And make them works on mechanical Bees " Kanye West

[@invaderzim3301]

YOU’RE AFTER MY ROBOT BEE!

[@mudlark4099]

Tak will be after those robot bees.

[@thepinkanubis]

How does each one locate the spot on the flower it needs to visit? Where does the energy come from to operate them?

[@ItsMeChaoz]

The stare and slowmo at the beginning😂

[@raizaintilian]

It’s sad we’ve gone this far to need robotic bees. Let’s just hope this will be more motivation to save the bees

[@KangarooMonkey]

If anything it will be the opposite since they won’t be of use for much longer.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

as with anything there is more than one way to look at this, let's get off this planet and make it a nature preserve, even then it will still have problems of species endangering each other. on the other hand, do you lose much sleep over any of the thousands of creatures that are extinct? maybe this is the fate of humans, to become machines (through AI) and to replace biological creatures with robotic ones. the thought might not be very appealing, but as i keep pointing out to people, we are all going to die sooner or later, and we don't lose much sleep over who is going to inhereit, does it matter if it's a natural, biological creature that came about by accident, or a machine that a human designed, a robot mofified, and will possible last forever?

[@SunkissedMalice]

@@HarryNicNicholas Oh yay, billionaires will be uploading their memories into a young host to essentially live forever. What a deranged and disgusting thing to be promoting.

[@xtkfpv5306]

Very interesting concepts, I wonder though? Why flapping wings, it has been tried and failed many times throughout history in the initial attempts to fly. just breaking the restraints of gravity is not the problem it is controlling the trajectory that becomes much more of a problem. Rocket propulsion is something you should look at, bombardier beetles produce a hydrogen peroxide that mixes with hydroquinone and produces a hot gas that they use for defense mostly but it could be used for propulsion as well. Just food for thought.

[@nishasolanki1866]

This can be a near to perfect path in bring the future to NOW. "If you don't fail, you don't learn enough. We build, we test. We build, we test."

[@kushalpanchal4951]

Only kanye knows the potential

[@rachelrondou1398]

Amazing.

[@Firealchemist24]

It's awesome that they are taking on the challenge of creating robots inspired by bugs and on that same scale, but also tragic to think we will really really need them rather soonish because the real ones are going extinct and nobody knows why, although most certainly because of something we're doing.

[@josedirks3973]

Come on.. We all seen the CIA videos of robotic bees

[@walnut3036]

The NSA approves

[@matthewkalasky2891]

Going a lot smaller could certainly help with medical tech.

[@Tyshi7999]

Nat Geo that creates a different world for biologist people , nat Geo is bigger than nasa in my respect

[@le_anton_rr]

Amazing

[@dutchboss509]

when he said " a hive of robotic bees" i thought, of course!! so much pollination! think how fertile our world will be..

[@pjanoo6973]

There will be no where you can go where there isn't a camera what a great life.

[@5mnz7fg]

I wonder what impacts such robots could have on insect eating animals. A bat for example or a swallow could die in the attempt to eat an artificial bee...

[@austinpatterson8418]

Intense Kanye breathing

[@civilian0005]

Anyone know the music artists for songs used? (Assuming that the editors/producers of this didn't make the music).

[@vinoddevaraj2282]

If you have the power of making robotic bees, then you also have the power to population of living bees.

[@NotYanki]

2:35 music pls???

[@digiasal1318]

great

[@900ml5]

is the programm written in Ruby?

[@vecinoslacalavilla]

Robotic spy Bees watching and listening to everything on the curtain rail whaw, the mind boggles

[@Makairl]

Does anyone think robots will out pace pets one day you can make literally anything you can imagine or maybe cyborgs

[@jawharulislam878]

All praise and might belongs to almighty Allah who made countless creatures and beautified this world with them and that too effortlessly...we are not able to make even 1 with so many brains and resources at disposal.

[@lordmcswain1436]

A nice idea, but do they really draw that much from bee biology?

[@narmerra841]

if I want to create things like the robo-bees should I study mechatronics?

[@matthewpowley-young7875]

pov your king of the earf

[@andrewd6438]

Nice try NatGeo, we've already seen that episode of black mirror and know how that ends.

[@ericheydenreich2846]

Hopefully the honey bee will not go extinct before you complete these to do their jobs of pollination.

[@yrok244]

Kanye was on to something

[@johnk484]

Cool dude

[@thecreepyracoon1634]

Who came from Kanye west on joe Rogan 😂😂

[@eliasostby7127]

"robotics is the new internet" huh

[@snowball7720]

This is my favorite episode of black mirror

[@elisilva3013]

So Great job! very nice technology... still one PY2EGS

[@agungbandaso]

cool

[@yevheniisnezhko8292]

everybody love it

[@VampirePaigey]

This reminds me of Richy Rich lol

[@meliponariojfcnativas4166]

Brasil aquir.👏👏👏

[@mushroom7357]

when them sale it

[@davidmanning1474]

These guys never saw black mirror I guess

[@dawnscript1]

I have envisioned and will manifest mechanical bees.

[@TheMaw365]

Maybe we're all organic robots, built by aliens, became sentient, and killed them.

[@ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527]

Nah we are not

[@jambajuice07]

After 9yrs nothing is changed 😢

[@benderbendingrodriguez8950]

Black Mirror!!!

[@user-hg9mt8dh7l]

Hated in the nation ??? anyone ??????

[@bipolatelly9806]

Of course! And not for the good! Which would suit NG Society fine!

[@TempleOfGaia]

Once we completely achieve results in metallogical robotics we will swing back towards building better biologicals. H20 must always be a component as a sensory element in any form that houses a sentience.

[@TempleOfGaia]

Set yourself in a place of peace. Soul peace. Every being that sleeps and goes to a dreaming place are all from a race of a universal consciousness. Be you bees or humans. We must stumble so that we can grow. Humans stumble, bees stumble during progress. The place we go to when we dream is eternal, and we have visited this place during the sleep time of every life we have lived. No need to save the bees and polar bears, for they have lived in the time allotted to them. We, humans, have lived in the time, allotted to us... We MUST live to the best'tis :) we can be. The live experiences we have imprint onto the cosmos. This imprinting is a memory that will be accessed by future consciousness's who come upon an awareness that will add value to their current existence. We can't rescue the bees or the polar bears, their job and place in this world is done. Times, going forward, are places that we need to continue to the best of our abilities. What ends, ends. We thrive in the places that naturally continue without any assistance. Dismiss expectations. Expect nothing. Fuck where you can and screw-over when necessary.

[@trongquynguyen579]

+Kevin Baird wtov8hzs

[@Sara3346]

Or other liquids, you really just need a polarized solvent right?

[@Rajesh_KC_911]

*And finally you see the bee is not battery operated... can fly only through the wire and also dont have any sensor wtf was that... it is like a cellphone charger.* 😂😂😂

[@kd_dreamauto]

Black Mirror anyone?

[@th1nk_outside]

next thing will be robotic birds that feed on robotic bees

[@jelly0675]

We'll this is the future for ya

[@bxbyy_emxly939]

We will all die if we don’t have normal bees stop with the robotic bees😭😭

[@ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527]

thats the reason why they are making it we for sure will die if we dont make one. Soon if advance enough we can survive without the bees

[@ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527]

You dont have to be great at start but have to start to be great. If we dont start right now nothing will change at all...

[@allxnj3]

After watching Black Mirror on netflix, I don't think this is a good idea anymore.

[@gladimirsavinon104]

Now I know who is gonna make money from the disappearance of bees....

[@jesuarivera7571]

Your working on the wrong bug

[@goodsir.813]

DID ANY ONE NOTICE THE FLYING STUFF THEY PUT IN HERE ITS HANGING? NOT ACTUALLY FLYING ... PFFFT ITS RIDICULOUS

[@paradisegunshot]

i believe i can fly....... i believe i can touch the-BOOM!

[@sweetheart-kt5vn]

paradisegunshot I know scary hey...

[@PoiColle]

ゴゴゴゴ｢Tower of Gray｣ゴゴゴゴ

[@viannyrojas]

We need these bees...these bees can change the world!!! Imagine the future......imagine robots and a lot of other amazing stuff!!! I hope I see the world change!!! 😌🙏👍👊🌎💚

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

Is this sarcasm?

[@yulianaraven7851]

Space exploration? How they gonna fly without an atmosphere?

[@thinklikeanorange9868]

Is this still bee-ing financed, and if so, by whom?

[@Vape_Master69]

WOW this technology is still so young but they are literally developing algorithms for a cpu that doesn't exist yet. the "bee" is tethered to a computer controlled power supply that uses control theory to manipulate the "bee" into a stable flight, from the feedback of the infrared sensors. I think the real holy grail in technology is the development of sensors that make it possible for a idea to go from concept to reality. but still a giant leap in the mechanics of it. this is old tho.

[@anz1524]

Imagine it has camera..😐

[@sumitasinha936]

i came up with this idea

[@jillmahaffey7468]

Outlaw stop making round-up

[@jamesbravo5307]

the need for the robot bees stems from the use of insecticides used by Monsanto which is causing massive bee die off. poison the environment and replace everything with robots, makes sense...

[@jackpaulmarcilloortiz2528]

NOOOOO

[@biktoras57]

2 persons 4 legs

[@aloofol]

mechanical bees

[@lilsalsa37]

so this what kanye west was talking about

[@HoussamNekkaa]

So knave west was right

[@_Sorren_]

Don't use that hashtag.

[@ayushapoorva]

Just no weapon implementation pls

[@galaxys6gold460]

Ayush Apoorva Pretty sure they already have it, Boston dynamics was bought by the US military

[@Jarrodmontelius]

Monsanto takin ovaaaa!!!

[@desbloqueosdeimpresoras4700]

para q mierda hicieron este mosquito

[@simonrosendo3392]

Yep ooooookkkk ..”greater good” ....🤨of who

[@petez470]

...aaand who is funding this?

[@craig79792000]

Or we could just figure out a way to help bees. One stiff breeze and the entire operation is lost. I know I am missing the point, but I feel they are going in the wrong direction. Instead of creating a new method, just focus that same effort on maintaining what we have that works. I for one, do not want to see the days where drones put hard working bees out of work. There will be rioting, bee welfare and a general sense of disenfranchisement among bee populations. Before you know it, bumbles will be attacking honey's and don't even get me started on what those damn hornets will do, thugs....one and all.

[@talhaarshad9611]

Kayne west is looking for you

[@umedloikov2161]

like if u want national geographic make kanye its creative director

[@umedloikov2161]

please like my comment

[@dronesarewatchingyouwhiley4587]

Kanye was right

[@JuJu916JuJu]

Richie rich movie

[@julien1]

Locusts of the Revelation I proffer could be robots