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Be a Hummingbird

Welcome to the second edition of the 6th graders research journal where we find out more about the action that they are taking to protect the planet.

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Believe it or not, robotic bees already exist in Japan and,

if you use a robotic bee, it pollinates the flower in 53 out of

100 tries. So it won’t be bad but it will take time for the

robotic bee to pollinate the flowers. This all was done with

a remote control robotic bee so you can tell how hard it is.

It will take about another year or so to create an automatic

bee which can find flowers by itself and pollinate by itself.

While normal bees can pollinate 30% of the pollen there is,

robot bees can pollinate 41% of what is available. Even

though it takes lots of tries, it can still pollinate more than

the natural bee.

Robotic bee with sticky pollinator hairs that copy a bee’s

hairy body

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