Tuesday, April 3, 2018

NASA has a plan to put robot bees on Mars

NASA has announced the funding of a new research effort that will explore the possibility of using robot bees to study the Martian surface. A research team at the University of Alabama will work in collaboration with an as-of-yet unannounced team in Japan to create what may be a more efficient means to explore Mars. NASA has appropriately  called the concept the Marsbee. The team hopes to develop a model that is capable of navigating the thin atmosphere of Mars in swarms, gathering information with...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/nasa-has-a-plan-to-put-robot-bees-on-mars
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