Researchers at MIT have created a group of robotic insects that they hope to be able to use as a swarm of pollinators in the ...

MIT scientists are developing robotic insects that can help with pollination, potentially boosting crop production without ...

The idea of robots as pollen carriers is not entirely new. The robots reportedly developed earlier were not durable and ...

American scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new type of robotic insect that can ...

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MIT researchers have developed highly agile robotic insects that could transform artificial pollination, enabling fruit and vegetable farming inside multilevel warehouses. Inspired by real ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

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 ...

With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture's ...

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 ...

At the pinnacle of this pursuit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are pioneering tiny, insect-like robots that specialize in artificial pollination to revolutionize the future ...