This Valentine's Day, millions of pounds worth of chocolate will be exchanged as gifts, but climate change and biodiversity loss imperil future global supplies of this treat. A new research study ...

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

Working in pairs, they could create a series of cards depicting pollination, which their partner then has to sequence. This film will be relevant for teaching Science/Biology at Key Stage 1 and ...

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

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like assisted pollination," says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), head of the Soft and Micro Robotics Laboratory within ...

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The mechanism of the plant's pollination has similarly remained ... This research was funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (grant JPMJPR21D6). Kobe University ...

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

like assisted pollination,” says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the senior author of research paper, in a statement.