For many of these plants, this transfer is carried out by insects in search of food—this is known as insect pollination. The impact of humans on the environment extends to pollination and ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...

The robotic insect, which weighs less than a paperclip ... we are getting closer to some very exciting applications, like assisted pollination,” says Kevin Chen, an associate professor in ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...