Tiny, Robotic Bees Could Change the World | National Geographic

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • Robert Wood, a National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and award-winning engineer, is working on entirely new classes of robots-including a fleet of tiny, robotic bees-that may one day transform space exploration, agriculture, and search-and-rescue operations.
    ➡ Subscribe: bit.ly/NatGeoSu...
    About National Geographic:
    National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.
    Get More National Geographic:
    Official Site: bit.ly/NatGeoOf...
    Facebook: bit.ly/FBNatGeo
    Twitter: bit.ly/NatGeoTw...
    Instagram: bit.ly/NatGeoInsta
    Learn more about Robert Wood and his work:
    news.nationalge...
    The Explorers Project chronicles the work of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers-tomorrow's visionaries who are making discoveries, making a difference, and inspiring people to care about the planet. Learn more at nationalgeograp....
    DIRECTOR: Kat Keene Hogue
    EDITOR: Julia Wall
    COMPOSER: Matt Brandau
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mike Schmidt and Jason Orfanon
    SENIOR PRODUCERS: Anastasia Cronin and Jennifer Shoemaker
    ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Alexandra Verville
    Tiny, Robotic Bees Could Change the World | National Geographic
    • Tiny, Robotic Bees Cou...
    National Geographic
    / natgeo

КОМЕНТАРІ • 224

  • @fatpanda9699
    @fatpanda9699 7 років тому +122

    Has no one seen that episode of black mirror?

    • @ismailramdan5095
      @ismailramdan5095 6 років тому +1

      Which one

    • @Thugesh
      @Thugesh 6 років тому +8

      @@ismailramdan5095 hated in the nation

    • @ismailramdan5095
      @ismailramdan5095 6 років тому +1

      @@Thugesh Thank you.

    • @ismailramdan5095
      @ismailramdan5095 6 років тому

      @Alycia Goode I think, that strong elektromagnets will damage the human body.

    • @wendybell9007
      @wendybell9007 5 років тому +2

      Scotch Mercedes its not really obvious its a cumulative effect and can effect different people in different ways,cancer, infertility etc. It will effect the smallest first thats why the small flying insects the bees and small birds are dying off. Small children will be affected with masts in school grounds . Not in it for an argument just sharing whats been going on in Gateshead where i live

  • @thecreepyracoon1634
    @thecreepyracoon1634 2 роки тому +5

    Who came from Kanye west on joe Rogan 😂😂

  • @PantsingtonHardware
    @PantsingtonHardware 10 років тому +44

    This told me close to absolutely nothing about this project. It was a nothing video.

    • @lIIlllIIIl
      @lIIlllIIIl 3 роки тому

      Bruh he even said at the ending "investing in the unknown is the best route to make fundamental scientific advancements" Also use your imagination. Your comment is 6 years old but even then it was said that bees are dying out. What could we use roboter bees for, hmm, I wonder?

    • @GermanGameAdviser
      @GermanGameAdviser 2 роки тому

      @@lIIlllIIIl hm somewhere i heard that if (edit)commercial(/edit) bees would die out like a thanos snap..... literally nothing of a hysteria scale bad whatever event (that everybody was thaught would happen) would happen.

  • @Andy-ws2ux
    @Andy-ws2ux 4 роки тому +49

    Why does everybody think Robot = End of Humanity? This is a cool, innovative project and I look forward to anymore developments

    • @RomoJL94
      @RomoJL94 4 роки тому +7

      Haven't you seen what happens in The Terminator? 🙄

    • @jwilson544
      @jwilson544 4 роки тому

      just because sometimes can happen doesn't mean it will happen

    • @valravhknight1914
      @valravhknight1914 4 роки тому +2

      @@RomoJL94 or Matrix, or BLAME! or Battlestar Galactica...

    • @austinstino7571
      @austinstino7571 3 роки тому +3

      But why kill the other bees we need them. And have you not watched black mirror l.

    • @utkarshchauhan4795
      @utkarshchauhan4795 3 роки тому

      Also in Detroit became human

  • @JarvisBaileyVA
    @JarvisBaileyVA 2 роки тому +7

    Meanwhile Kanye just wants a robotic hit squad of bees

  • @kushalpanchal4951
    @kushalpanchal4951 2 роки тому +3

    Only kanye knows the potential

  • @sbdgrwnmrw6085
    @sbdgrwnmrw6085 9 років тому +20

    a robotic insect with a camera attached to it.... passing into areas where.... hmmm?

  • @VenusManTrap-777
    @VenusManTrap-777 2 роки тому +3

    To anyone making negative comments…the bees gon get you.

  • @leeburkett9906
    @leeburkett9906 10 років тому +59

    Here's the thing:
    Since Monsanto is busy killing all the bees, the development of robotic bees would seem to be a spectacular answer to the need to keep growing food.
    Unless we stop to consider that, at the point where robotic bees become necessary to fulfill a function that nature has been doing for millions of years, we discover that now it's the people who make the bees that will be making the decisions as to who gets food.
    Imagine the power of the union of Agri-business and Agri-robotics.
    Of course we could just stop Monsanto from destroying the natural world, as an alternative.
    Just sayin ... .

    • @loudencate-cribari158
      @loudencate-cribari158 7 років тому +1

      The Robotbees would pollinate more efficiently than the actual bees. The bees don't pollinate on purpose they are only going to eat. While these robobees wuld be programmed to run a cycle that pollinates all of the plants in the field as opposed to the bee bees that are going to near random plants at random times to eat.

    • @Rainkit
      @Rainkit 5 років тому

      They aren't being made to replace bees

    • @melaniecarr8834
      @melaniecarr8834 5 років тому +1

      I'm curious how much this is going to cost, what happens when a bird tries to eat them?

    • @austinstino7571
      @austinstino7571 3 роки тому +1

      @@loudencate-cribari158 there is a reason why the bees have been there.

    • @phungsa
      @phungsa 2 роки тому

      Did you even here why these robotic bees are used for ?? Surely not food.

  • @jeanjacquesseidelbaum2140
    @jeanjacquesseidelbaum2140 2 роки тому +4

    "And make them works on mechanical Bees " Kanye West

  • @umedloikov2161
    @umedloikov2161 2 роки тому +3

    like if u want national geographic make kanye its creative director

  • @yrok244
    @yrok244 2 роки тому +4

    Kanye was on to something

  • @dronesarewatchingyouwhiley4587
    @dronesarewatchingyouwhiley4587 2 роки тому +4

    Kanye was right

  • @josedirks3973
    @josedirks3973 3 роки тому +2

    Come on.. We all seen the CIA videos of robotic bees

  • @giorgia8960
    @giorgia8960 2 роки тому +3

    *Kanye West likes this content*

  • @黒いライト-o1e
    @黒いライト-o1e 4 роки тому +2

    Hated in the nation ??? anyone ??????

  • @shorra1584
    @shorra1584 2 роки тому +3

    Ye brought me here

  • @matthewpowley-young7875
    @matthewpowley-young7875 2 роки тому +2

    pov your king of the earf

  • @SaphyOW
    @SaphyOW 2 роки тому +2

    This is what Kanye wanted 🐝

  • @austinpatterson8418
    @austinpatterson8418 2 роки тому +2

    Intense Kanye breathing

  • @kd_dreamauto
    @kd_dreamauto 4 роки тому +2

    Black Mirror anyone?

  • @bobslice1765
    @bobslice1765 2 роки тому +1

    Who's here after watching Joe Rogan / Kanye West !?!?

  • @raizaintilian
    @raizaintilian 3 роки тому +19

    It’s sad we’ve gone this far to need robotic bees. Let’s just hope this will be more motivation to save the bees

    • @KangarooMonkey
      @KangarooMonkey 3 роки тому +1

      If anything it will be the opposite since they won’t be of use for much longer.

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 3 роки тому

      as with anything there is more than one way to look at this, let's get off this planet and make it a nature preserve, even then it will still have problems of species endangering each other.
      on the other hand, do you lose much sleep over any of the thousands of creatures that are extinct? maybe this is the fate of humans, to become machines (through AI) and to replace biological creatures with robotic ones.
      the thought might not be very appealing, but as i keep pointing out to people, we are all going to die sooner or later, and we don't lose much sleep over who is going to inhereit, does it matter if it's a natural, biological creature that came about by accident, or a machine that a human designed, a robot mofified, and will possible last forever?

    • @SunkissedMalice
      @SunkissedMalice 2 роки тому

      @@HarryNicNicholas Oh yay, billionaires will be uploading their memories into a young host to essentially live forever. What a deranged and disgusting thing to be promoting.

  • @jawharulislam878
    @jawharulislam878 3 роки тому +1

    All praise and might belongs to almighty Allah who made countless creatures and beautified this world with them and that too effortlessly...we are not able to make even 1 with so many brains and resources at disposal.

  • @andrewd6438
    @andrewd6438 6 років тому +3

    Nice try NatGeo, we've already seen that episode of black mirror and know how that ends.

  • @xinlim1844
    @xinlim1844 10 років тому +9

    Please upload more videos featuring recent inventions inspired by nature! :) I can't imagine the amount of hard work that goes into this, staying in the lab the entire day staring at and making that tiny robot over and over again and doing all that testing and data analysis... Hopefully the fruits of their labor (pun intended) will show in the near future!

  • @davidmanning1474
    @davidmanning1474 Рік тому +1

    These guys never saw black mirror I guess

  • @thatmaheshrs
    @thatmaheshrs 10 років тому +10

    fantastic vid. amazing inventions. wishing mr wood and his team all the best with their r&d.

  • @mudlark4099
    @mudlark4099 7 років тому +5

    Tak will be after those robot bees.

  • @thepinkanubis
    @thepinkanubis Рік тому +1

    How does each one locate the spot on the flower it needs to visit? Where does the energy come from to operate them?

  • @lilsalsa37
    @lilsalsa37 2 роки тому +1

    so this what kanye west was talking about

  • @walnut3036
    @walnut3036 10 років тому +7

    The NSA approves

  • @lifewithlove7739
    @lifewithlove7739 2 роки тому +1

    Kanye is coming for these

  • @HoussamNekkaa
    @HoussamNekkaa 2 роки тому +1

    So knave west was right

  • @Rt2comments
    @Rt2comments 2 роки тому +1

    Kanye brought me here

  • @issooooo9563
    @issooooo9563 2 роки тому +1

    Kanye west

  • @mendfri
    @mendfri 10 років тому +4

    kill the wasps! they are killing the honeybees

    • @liamsi75
      @liamsi75 10 років тому

      Wasps and Hornets were there for a long time ago... And Bees didn't dissapear.
      So you're designing the wrong guilty.

    • @mendfri
      @mendfri 10 років тому

      ***** so? they prob evolved and became more aggressive

    • @carboy101
      @carboy101 9 років тому +2

      Endermender110 you're a total fucking idiot. Its not like decades of spray insect killing pesticides could have anything to do with it. Where on earth do they produces idiots like you and why hasn't America bombed it yet?

    • @mendfri
      @mendfri 9 років тому

      Dr0pkidd ... its just my opinion

    • @lIIlllIIIl
      @lIIlllIIIl 3 роки тому

      @@mendfri maybe one day we have soe sort of nano tech beed that pollinate our flowers and kill all unwanted insects mosquitos, ticks and so on. Wasps are actualy very importan pollinators

  • @5mnz7fg
    @5mnz7fg 6 років тому +1

    I wonder what impacts such robots could have on insect eating animals. A bat for example or a swallow could die in the attempt to eat an artificial bee...

  • @bxbyy_emxly939
    @bxbyy_emxly939 3 роки тому +1

    We will all die if we don’t have normal bees stop with the robotic bees😭😭

    • @ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527
      @ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527 2 роки тому

      thats the reason why they are making it we for sure will die if we dont make one. Soon if advance enough we can survive without the bees

    • @ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527
      @ihaventshoweredin6weeksbut527 2 роки тому

      You dont have to be great at start but have to start to be great. If we dont start right now nothing will change at all...

  • @JULALAINE
    @JULALAINE 4 роки тому

    ALL OUR LIVES, SCIENCE IS THE FOCUS OF EDUCATION NOT GOD. WE WORSHIP THE EARTHLY THINGS AND HE DOESNT LIKE IT.

  • @jamesbravo5307
    @jamesbravo5307 8 років тому +3

    the need for the robot bees stems from the use of insecticides used by Monsanto which is causing massive bee die off. poison the environment and replace everything with robots, makes sense...

  • @ericheydenreich2846
    @ericheydenreich2846 10 років тому +2

    Hopefully the honey bee will not go extinct before you complete these to do their jobs of pollination.

  • @aloofol
    @aloofol 2 роки тому +1

    mechanical bees

  • @xtkfpv5306
    @xtkfpv5306 4 роки тому +2

    Very interesting concepts, I wonder though? Why flapping wings, it has been tried and failed many times throughout history in the initial attempts to fly. just breaking the restraints of gravity is not the problem it is controlling the trajectory that becomes much more of a problem. Rocket propulsion is something you should look at, bombardier beetles produce a hydrogen peroxide that mixes with hydroquinone and produces a hot gas that they use for defense mostly but it could be used for propulsion as well. Just food for thought.

  • @maxb5640
    @maxb5640 День тому

    Imagine one with neurotoxin... No need for explosions...

  • @aden4921
    @aden4921 2 роки тому +1

    kanye lol

  • @matthewkalasky2891
    @matthewkalasky2891 4 роки тому +2

    Going a lot smaller could certainly help with medical tech.

  • @dutchboss509
    @dutchboss509 9 років тому +2

    when he said " a hive of robotic bees" i thought, of course!! so much pollination! think how fertile our world will be..

  • @allxnj3
    @allxnj3 2 роки тому

    After watching Black Mirror on netflix, I don't think this is a good idea anymore.

  • @Tyshi7999
    @Tyshi7999 2 роки тому +1

    Nat Geo that creates a different world for biologist people , nat Geo is bigger than nasa in my respect

  • @yulianaraven7851
    @yulianaraven7851 10 місяців тому

    Space exploration? How they gonna fly without an atmosphere?

  • @goodsir.813
    @goodsir.813 4 роки тому

    DID ANY ONE NOTICE THE FLYING STUFF THEY PUT IN HERE ITS HANGING? NOT ACTUALLY FLYING ... PFFFT ITS RIDICULOUS

  • @benderbendingrodriguez8950
    @benderbendingrodriguez8950 6 років тому +1

    Black Mirror!!!

  • @julien1
    @julien1 Рік тому

    Locusts of the Revelation I proffer could be robots

  • @thinklikeanorange9868
    @thinklikeanorange9868 Рік тому

    Is this still bee-ing financed, and if so, by whom?

  • @YoungRin-ms
    @YoungRin-ms 3 роки тому +1

    Does anyone think robots will out pace pets one day you can make literally anything you can imagine or maybe cyborgs

  • @felathar1985
    @felathar1985 2 роки тому

    Monopolization of polination.... this will end well.

  • @nishasolanki1866
    @nishasolanki1866 9 років тому +1

    This can be a near to perfect path in bring the future to NOW. "If you don't fail, you don't learn enough. We build, we test. We build, we test."

  • @matdinkleburg2755
    @matdinkleburg2755 9 років тому

    lotta fancy words for something shitty

  • @jambajuice07
    @jambajuice07 11 місяців тому

    After 9yrs nothing is changed 😢

  • @Firealchemist24
    @Firealchemist24 10 років тому +1

    It's awesome that they are taking on the challenge of creating robots inspired by bugs and on that same scale, but also tragic to think we will really really need them rather soonish because the real ones are going extinct and nobody knows why, although most certainly because of something we're doing.

  • @mentorpozhegu
    @mentorpozhegu 10 років тому +1

    Interesting video good luck and thank you for sharing.

  • @СтепанТелька
    @СтепанТелька Рік тому

    А можна перевести на Українську

  • @TempleOfGaia
    @TempleOfGaia 10 років тому +1

    Once we completely achieve results in metallogical robotics we will swing back towards building better biologicals. H20 must always be a component as a sensory element in any form that houses a sentience.

    • @TempleOfGaia
      @TempleOfGaia 10 років тому +1

      Set yourself in a place of peace. Soul peace. Every being that sleeps and goes to a dreaming place are all from a race of a universal consciousness. Be you bees or humans. We must stumble so that we can grow. Humans stumble, bees stumble during progress. The place we go to when we dream is eternal, and we have visited this place during the sleep time of every life we have lived. No need to save the bees and polar bears, for they have lived in the time allotted to them. We, humans, have lived in the time, allotted to us... We MUST live to the best'tis :) we can be. The live experiences we have imprint onto the cosmos. This imprinting is a memory that will be accessed by future consciousness's who come upon an awareness that will add value to their current existence. We can't rescue the bees or the polar bears, their job and place in this world is done. Times, going forward, are places that we need to continue to the best of our abilities. What ends, ends. We thrive in the places that naturally continue without any assistance. Dismiss expectations. Expect nothing. Fuck where you can and screw-over when necessary.

    • @trongquynguyen579
      @trongquynguyen579 9 років тому

      +Kevin Baird wtov8hzs

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 8 років тому

      Or other liquids, you really just need a polarized solvent right?

  • @bluesyace9564
    @bluesyace9564 Рік тому

    so this is what kanye was talking about

  • @n3v3rg01ngback
    @n3v3rg01ngback 4 роки тому

    Like in the Palindrome books.

  • @paradisegunshot
    @paradisegunshot 10 років тому +7

    i believe i can fly....... i believe i can touch the-BOOM!

  • @talhaarshad9611
    @talhaarshad9611 10 місяців тому

    Kayne west is looking for you

  • @invaderzim3301
    @invaderzim3301 4 роки тому +1

    YOU’RE AFTER MY ROBOT BEE!

  • @vecinoslacalavilla
    @vecinoslacalavilla 10 років тому

    Robotic spy Bees watching and listening to everything on the curtain rail whaw, the mind boggles

  • @jackpaulmarcilloortiz2528
    @jackpaulmarcilloortiz2528 2 роки тому

    HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @VampirePaigey
    @VampirePaigey 9 років тому +1

    This reminds me of Richy Rich lol

  • @PoopHAHAHA
    @PoopHAHAHA 2 роки тому

    So thats what kanye meant

  • @zestamore
    @zestamore 2 роки тому

    I came from black mirror

  • @sumitasinha936
    @sumitasinha936 4 роки тому

    i came up with this idea

  • @MrRomiBajwa
    @MrRomiBajwa 3 роки тому

    Teemo yay

  • @JuJu916JuJu
    @JuJu916JuJu 2 роки тому

    Richie rich movie

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk3 10 років тому

    What a load of crap.

  • @civilian0005
    @civilian0005 9 років тому

    Anyone know the music artists for songs used? (Assuming that the editors/producers of this didn't make the music).

  • @TeddyBears0s
    @TeddyBears0s 10 років тому

    Cheaper my ass

  • @vinoddevaraj2282
    @vinoddevaraj2282 Рік тому

    If you have the power of making robotic bees, then you also have the power to population of living bees.

  • @Rajesh_KC_911
    @Rajesh_KC_911 6 років тому

    *And finally you see the bee is not battery operated... can fly only through the wire and also dont have any sensor wtf was that... it is like a cellphone charger.*
    😂😂😂

  • @craig79792000
    @craig79792000 9 років тому

    Or we could just figure out a way to help bees. One stiff breeze and the entire operation is lost. I know I am missing the point, but I feel they are going in the wrong direction. Instead of creating a new method, just focus that same effort on maintaining what we have that works. I for one, do not want to see the days where drones put hard working bees out of work. There will be rioting, bee welfare and a general sense of disenfranchisement among bee populations. Before you know it, bumbles will be attacking honey's and don't even get me started on what those damn hornets will do, thugs....one and all.

  • @miauh5889
    @miauh5889 4 роки тому

    Meow .w.

  • @NotYanki
    @NotYanki 6 років тому +1

    2:35 music pls???

  • @gladimirsavinon104
    @gladimirsavinon104 5 років тому

    Now I know who is gonna make money from the disappearance of bees....

  • @elisilva3013
    @elisilva3013 9 років тому

    So Great job! very nice technology... still one PY2EGS

  • @narmerra841
    @narmerra841 6 років тому

    if I want to create things like the robo-bees should I study mechatronics?

  • @miauh5889
    @miauh5889 4 роки тому

    .w.

  • @bipolatelly9806
    @bipolatelly9806 6 років тому

    Of course!
    And not for the good!
    Which would suit NG Society fine!

  • @dawnscript1
    @dawnscript1 2 роки тому

    I have envisioned and will manifest mechanical bees.

  • @th1nk_outside
    @th1nk_outside 3 роки тому

    next thing will be robotic birds that feed on robotic bees

  • @pjanoo6973
    @pjanoo6973 5 років тому

    There will be no where you can go where there isn't a camera what a great life.

  • @HerrscherOfChaos
    @HerrscherOfChaos Рік тому

    The stare and slowmo at the beginning😂

  • @JadedVegas
    @JadedVegas 10 років тому

    This is a great idea, as long as it doesn't interfere or harm any bees in the process...

  • @lordmcswain1436
    @lordmcswain1436 10 років тому

    A nice idea, but do they really draw that much from bee biology?

  • @desbloqueosdeimpresoras4700
    @desbloqueosdeimpresoras4700 7 років тому

    para q mierda hicieron este mosquito

  • @snowball7720
    @snowball7720 6 років тому

    This is my favorite episode of black mirror

  • @jillmahaffey7468
    @jillmahaffey7468 6 років тому

    Outlaw stop making round-up

  • @900ml5
    @900ml5 8 років тому

    is the programm written in Ruby?