Tools of the trade include tiny gyroscopes on a moth's head and a flight plan that may send bees to their watery grave
"I have never heard of bees descending and crashing into water that is mirror-smooth, but I wouldn't be surprised," Frye says, because experiments have shown that bees do seem to fly by monitoring apparent motion. He says the authors have taken a proposed rule of insect flight "and then incorporated it into a control scheme for a stable flying robot—and it works. That is very cool indeed."
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Add CommentAnother factor for bee colony collape?
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