Source: Juliet Ferguson, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 8/8/22


Every so often a headline will shout about the coming of the robo-bees, with the vision of a dystopian future where drones, not insects, 'buzz’ from flower-to-flower. In 2018 the University of West Virginia in the US developed the BrambleBee, which pollinates plants using a robotic arm. Israeli tech company Arugga claims to be the first company to commercialise a robot able to replicate buzz pollination in tomato greenhouses.

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