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Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops

Adam Zewe

created: April 22, 2025, 9 p.m. | updated: April 24, 2025, 9:42 a.m.

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee, comes closer to matching nature’s performance than ever before.  Led by Kevin Chen, an associate…

2 months ago: MIT Technology Review