MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
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Well then fucking harvest me and get it over with
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#BugsArentReal
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Neat a dildo and 4 rotating nipple toys
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That researcher is a real life Dr. Hoenikker. Vonnegut is probably shrugging in his grave
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Yeah I was gonna say like why are we even workshopping the name with a winner like that. Get this employee a bonus check!
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And it sucks, when you think inside Star Wars, such small drones are used only in medical or expensive surveillance and military applications.
But in real life it can really be a swarm of things worse than scarabs in The Mummy.
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Horizon Zero Dawn looking more eminent any day now.
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There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?
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“We are willing to ignore and downplay the ethical concerns as long as the money keeping coming in”
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-…his mother was completely consumed by robotic bees. So it goes.
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Without a doubt they have those other use cases in mind too. Mentioning them is just not good for marketing in public.
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I guess I'm the only one thinking about how it's inevitable that birds and other animals will mistake them for real insects and die from ingesting these things, god knows what kind of toxic materials they're made of but I'm willing to bet it's not safe to eat them
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The MIT engineers agree. They said something to the effect of "If you could make a robotic bee, it wouldn't replace bees. It would be a terrible idea to try to use them for pollination... Just put that same amount of finding into conservation and researching bees, you would have a much better result."
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They also did this in Spy Kids
