• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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        The MIT engineers agree. They said something to the effect of “If you could make a robotic bee, it wouldn’t replace bees. It would be a terrible idea to try to use them for pollination… Just put that same amount of finding into conservation and researching bees, you would have a much better result.”

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      13 hours ago

      But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.