Robo-Bees May Bring New Fix for Pollination Problem

2/22/2017

Review the article and determine the practicality of such a program. How does this link to our earlier discussion about waiting for technology to bail us out of trouble? Provide an idea of your own to address the pollen shortages.

http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robo-bees-may-bring-new-fix-pollination-problem-n720171

6 Comments

Marlene Moravec

2/24/2017 09:52:54 am

There is no real practicality to robo-bees. Humans are just trying to find another way out of their own mistakes. Instead of making robo-bees, we should focus on keep up the bee population. The robo-bees will only cause more unnecessary pollution which we don't need at all. This links to out earlier discussions since all we are doing is finding a solution to a problem that we made and are regretting. I think we should create more bee farms or find a way to promote the bees to reproduce faster. We should also decrease the amount of harm we are doing to them. Humans should also look at this as a lesson and prevent other animals from doing the same.

Alexus Garbacz

2/26/2017 01:06:17 pm

Well there is nothing to the robo-bees. As said in the very last part of the article we should not be planning their demise but saving their population. We shouldn't have to be making robots of the bees because I think that is just wasting money on something that is not gonna last very long. They are many more ways to pollinate the flowers than making something stupid that is going to hurt the environment and possibly other animals because it could mess up the food chain in many ways. This links to our discussion about technology just trying to make up for the mistakes people keep making. If we keep hurting the environment it will hurt human health, animal health, and eventually hurt the whole world, and everything will just be technology because that is what we will be living off of. I agree with Marlene how this should be a lesson to people and we should be doing something to help instead of wasting money on unnecessary things and we should help the bee population by bee farms and such.

Michaela munger

2/27/2017 12:29:49 am

I believe that the robot bees are not necessary at the moment. Humans have to realize the importance of bees and protect them before it's too late. The article said that the robo-bees would add to the world's pollution which is definitely not a good thing. With the bee's population in danger, this poses a threat to farmers because without pollinators there are no crops. The food chain is also in danger. I do think that it is important for us to be planning for the future because if we are not able to save the bees we need a backup plan. We should come up with more effective ways of pollinating crops than the robo bees.

Michaela Munger

2/27/2017 12:33:57 am

I believe that the robot bees are not necessary at the moment. Humans have to recognize the importance of bees and protect them before it's too late. With the bee's population in danger, this poses a threat to farmers and the food chain. Without pollinators there are no crops. I do think that it is important for us to be planning for the future because if we are not able to save the bees, we need a backup plan. We should come up with more effective ways of pollinating crops than the robo bees. The robo-bees would be bad for our environment and lead people to believe that without bees things would remain the same, which is very false. I think that the resources going into making fake bees should be going toward protecting the real bees instead. I also think that more people should be finding ways to help the bees reproduce faster to help prevent extinction.

Autumn

3/8/2017 08:42:05 pm

I think the articles idea about robot bees is semi practical. Right now it is not because although bees are endangered there not completely extinct and there are a lot of issues with the robot bee. The battery life isn't good, the price is very high and the percentage of working rate isn't high. We also don't know what it could do to our environment, interfering with the plants and other pollinators.
This links to our discussion because in my opinion technology should be the last option for a problem like this. There would be EVEN more problems we would have to figure out with the technology. Why don't we just preserve and protect what we have while we have it. Work on breeding bees and changing there genetics so they become resistant to chemicals used in farming or have the farmers change the chemicals they use. I think those would be better options over robot bees right now.
My opinion to address the shortages would be to fix the problem with bees now. Breed the bees in captivity now and then release them. Change there genetics so they can become resistant to chemicals used in farming or to change the farming ways to not harm the bees. It would make the food healthier too. They could also looking into other animals that pollinate and see if they find any ideas and solutions there.

Destiney Sennett link

3/12/2017 10:49:13 pm

I do not think that robo-bees are practical. There are many things that could go wrong with them and they might not be as reliable as the researchers think. It links to our earlier discussion because like self controlled cars, we can't trust technology to be more advanced and reliable than natural "systems". I think that rather than trying to get a new solution, we should work on fixing the original problem. Bees should be listed as an endangered species and people should work on protecting the natural form of pollination. Before jumping to a new solution, people should focus on not ruining the original way first

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