While many 13-year-old boys might spend their summers playing video games or attending camp, Oliver Taylor decided to build a ...

Inspired by bees, the team, led by Dr. Mirko Kovac at Imperial College London, took to the sky. Their idea weaves together 3D printing with self-organizing drones, which seamlessly build a “beehive” ...

Researchers have taken bees as a model to develop a swarm of cooperative, 3D-printing drones. Under human control, these flying robots work as a team to print 3D materials for building or ...

That's why scientists are creating a bee-inspired system, which uses flying 3D-printing drones to do the job. ... in order to compensate for any unintentional drifting on the part of the latter.

Graduate student Joshua Foley helped create the 3D-printed robotic flowers in Brown Hall for the bees to interact with. The bees feed on artificial nectar while researchers monitor their behavior.

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