Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 16: AI in the Animals and Plant Kingdoms
accurate picture of internal organs. 430 Others can be set out to browse an
apartment to give a seller and a buyer exact measurements of the place.
A scientist from the National Science Foundation says,
“If you can do something on the RoboBee, you can do it anywhere,” Koppal
says. “Microlidar could work wherever regular lidar is used. There are all
kinds of applications in agriculture and industry where people already use
lidar to map the factory floor or farm. In many cases, smaller and cheaper
is just better.” 431
Figure 16-1: RoboBee at the size of a quarter.
There is no mention of bee drones as spies, of course. I would say,
quite to the contrary; after the above statement, the Minion-related
Smithsonian Society is quick to add:
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Smithsonian.com (undated), “RoboBees Can Fly and Swim. What's Next? Laser Vision”
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Smithsonian.com (undated), “RoboBees Can Fly and Swim. What's Next? Laser Vision,” op. cit.
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