03-30-2013, 04:51 AM
As with almost every area of science and technology in 2013, drones or UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) development is exploding.
There is a lot of news about honey bees dying off and how that is going to threaten our food supply. Honey bees are carrying pollen from flower to flower by collecting it on fine hairs on their legs. It is now becoming feasible for nano-UAV to supplement and even replace the honey bee in this function and it wouldn't be a random function, so that swarms of nano-UAV could selectively go into different fields. This is a nano-UAV the British troops are using:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130...fghanistan
Britain Unveils Photos of Nano UAVs in Use in Afghanistan
This isn't quite a nano-UAV but it will only be some time before more miniaturization occurs. It is a UAV dragonfly but it is about the size of a Meganeura dragon fly from the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nj1yhz5io20#!
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There is a lot of news about honey bees dying off and how that is going to threaten our food supply. Honey bees are carrying pollen from flower to flower by collecting it on fine hairs on their legs. It is now becoming feasible for nano-UAV to supplement and even replace the honey bee in this function and it wouldn't be a random function, so that swarms of nano-UAV could selectively go into different fields. This is a nano-UAV the British troops are using:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130...fghanistan
Britain Unveils Photos of Nano UAVs in Use in Afghanistan
This isn't quite a nano-UAV but it will only be some time before more miniaturization occurs. It is a UAV dragonfly but it is about the size of a Meganeura dragon fly from the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nj1yhz5io20#!
Festo - BionicOpter
"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day! Onward to Elysium."
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