NSF awards Harvard $10 million for robot bees video

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When we heard that the National Science Foundation awarded $10 million to Harvard to make a swarm of robot bees, our first thought was: "We could do it for half the price." Then we remembered that the university has been down this path before, including its robot fly program (whatever happened to that thing?) and might be the better choice after all. What does the NSF and Harvard hope to get for all that time and money? Aside from insight into such areas as distributed intelligence, robotic flight, and energy storage, a swarm of these bad boys could be tasked to do anything from battlefield spying to pollination (which might be necessary, with the way that real bees are vanishing at such an alarming rate). The RoboBee project is slated to run for the next five years.

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[updown454]

That guy looked high.

[bertly71]

I can imagine hundreds of military and law enforcement applications.

[silverblue73]

what about effing pollination? 

[sukhoiskunk]

I think its simply because bees around the world are rapidly reducing in numbers and nobody is able to stop that, so a replacement is needed ;)

[3AtomicJabez8]

-Swarm of robotic bees-" Your Terminated Fucker!"

[chm1125]

The goal of this project is warfare, The US department of defense has signed a multimillionaire contract with the university of Maryland. It'll soon be a game changer in warfare!!!

[bertly71]

10 Million seems like alot of money. I wonder what their end use for this would be?