More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...
Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...
Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...
Despite the team’s improvements, the robotic insects still cannot match the capabilities of natural pollinators. However, the researchers aim to improve the robots’ flight time and precision to enable ...
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...
The robotic insect, which weighs less than a paperclip ... we are getting closer to some very exciting applications, like assisted pollination," says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the ...
The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...
The MIT researchers were able to significantly increase the flight time of an insect-sized flapping wing robot compared to ...