When Allegra Fischer got married last November, her niece was the flower girl. Like most, her niece was a bit awkward going down the aisle, but Allegra's sister stood in the wings and encouraged the ...

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We have previously written about one project that employed robot bees to pollinate flowers. Now, an Australian artist has come up with the inverse concept: Using a robotic flower to attract real bees.

A tiny, flexible machine might one day help neuroscientists eavesdrop on electrical activity in the brain, allowing them to pinpoint and potentially treat seizures. Inserted into the skull through a ...

A high-tech robot, designed to combat disease in tulip fields, relies on artificial intelligence to identify and address sick flowers in the Netherlands. Equipped with cameras and AI algorithms, the ...

Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch ...

Moths are impressive insects. They can hover over swaying flowers and gather nectar in the dark — conditions that would make most diurnal animals, like us, essentially blind. That's why researchers ...

Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

This newly installed robot paints latex whitewash on greenhouse roofs. AURORA, Ore. — At Oregon Flowers Inc., a family-run cut flower business in Aurora, robots help run the show. The Meskers family ...

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