Tomsk scientists plan to start creating robot-bees in 2019

«Next year we are going to make artificial bees — it will be a swarm of drones for pollination of plants, especially for strawberries which are grown year-round in greenhouses. We will develop the bees and also algorithms and control programmes for them, as well as optical systems and image recognition methods for accurate positioning. The prototypes will be rather large, so we strive to make them to be no more than a palm of a hand in size,» Yakovlev explained.