Eating as delicious, suicide into a habit... The Japanese do not know how many strange things to leave the world, in the world pollution problem is getting more and more serious, the ecological environment is seriously deteriorating today, the Japanese are not thinking about how to find a way to make the world clean, but began to calculate by pollution and species extinction to make money.
Due to species invasions and the misuse of pesticides, the number of bees is declining dramatically. In view of this, researchers at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences took advantage of the viscosity of the "ionic liquid gel" and decided to replace the pollination work of bees with drones.
The bizarre team first bought a $100 drone online. Add horsehair to the bottom of the drone, which is smeared with a damp gel. To take advantage of its stickiness so that the drone can "grab" and "release" pollen grains.
Complex and crude "drone pollination"
As you can see in the figure above, the pollination process of this robot is quite rough and completely controlled by humans.
Project leader Ichiro Miyaura said: "This is the first time ever that a flower has been pollinated by a drone. ”
But according to Joe Traynor, a California-based "bee broker," California's almond industry alone needs 1.8 million hives (equivalent to about 35 billion bees) to pollinate 3,642 square kilometers of almond trees that produce up to 3 trillion flowers.
When hearing the news, traynor said: "I don't think there is any technology that can replace such a huge number of bees, Japanese pollinator pollination is too rough, after its pollination, most flowers will not bear fruit"
It is undeniable that there is indeed a "labor shortage" of bees in some places, where they rely on artificial pollination, and workers climb up fruit trees to touch each flower with a brush.
Despite the inefficiency of manual pollination, Japanese pollinator drones are even more inefficient. It uses a remote control to control flight, manual operation, and Ichiro Miyata himself said that even if the lilies are very obvious, it is still a very challenging task to control the accurate pollination of the drone.
American biological circles said: Although UAV pollination is an attempt, but its process is too complex and rough, the use of such AUA pollination, will undoubtedly bring a huge waste of manpower and funds, so it will be limited manpower and funds for the study of UAV pollination, it is better to focus more energy on the protection of species diversity.
Finally, the relevant person said: If robots can do everything, what else do humans do?