More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

Researchers at MIT have created a group of robotic insects that they hope to be able to use as a swarm of pollinators in the ...

American scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new type of robotic insect that can ...

The cowslip (Primula veris) is considered a model species for studying insect-pollinated plants ... making self-pollination difficult. In S-morph flowers, the style is short, the anthers are ...

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

The idea of robots as pollen carriers is not entirely new. The robots reportedly developed earlier were not durable and ...

In all, more than 90 species of U.S. specialty crops require pollination by bees and other insect pollinators. In the wild, the numbers of such pollinators are in serious decline due to invasive ...

"With the improved lifespan and precision of this robot, we are getting closer to some very exciting applications, like assisted pollination.” Insect-sized drones needed considerable improvement ...