New breed of 'robot bees' to pollinate future vertical farms

New breed of 'robot bees' to pollinate future vertical farms
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Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram could take the place of bees as pollinators in indoor "vertical" farms of the future.

A team of five MIT researchers this month published an open-access paper on a new design they developed that they say significantly improves the flight precision and agility over previous of types of insect-scale "micro-aerial vehicles," or MAVs.

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