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Wal-Mart Files Patents for Robotic Bees: Anticipating When Bees Become Extinct? (Videos)

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by N.Morgan 

 

In the last decade, bee colonies have seen a drastic decline in numbers and many believe that Monsanto products are responsible for this hit to our environment and to the bee population.

If this trend continues bees may join other species that have become extinct.

Bees are not completely extinct yet, but they might as well be.

Because big corporations don’t want to see a 3/4 decrease in crop yields with the declining bee populations, they decided to simply replace them with robotic bees.

Like a drug, the use of robotic bees instead of using limited resources to try and save the dying bees is the preferred option for farmers both big and small.

This is not fiction: recently Wal-Mart filed a patent for robotic bees.

They aren’t the only people to try and develop them in recent years.

These ‘Robo-Bees’ Can Dive, Swim, and Jump

The autonomous, robotic bee replacements would pollinate crops just like bees, but at the mercy of corporations who own them and know how to produce them.

They would be like little drones, transporting pollen from plant to plant, utilizing cameras and sensors to detect the location of plants and flowers.

The patent filing was first reported by CB Insights.

Alongside 5 other patents for farming drones this one was spotted.

One drone found in the patents could monitor the health of crops, and another could identify pests.

According to Science Alert:

“In recent years, scientists have searched for solutions to the decline of honeybees, which pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat and are dying at unprecedented rates largely because of a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder. (In 2017, however, these deaths declined from the year prior.)

Harvard University researchers introduced the first RoboBees in 2013. At the time, the bee-size robots could only fly and hover midair when tethered to a power source, but they have advanced since then.

Today, the RoboBees can also stick to surfaces, swim underwater, and dive in and out of water.”

Tiny, Robotic Bees Could Change the World | National Geographic

If the idea is not enticing to the imagination, this could be considered a particularly scary idea to the average person, not only for the fact that bees could really become extinct, but also that they would be replaced with robotic pollinators that are controlled by corporations who just want to turn a profit.

A power differential between the corporations who wield this technology and the average person who lives paycheck to paycheck would be enormous.

This technology could actually create a vicious incentive for those who wield it, to actually destroy the remaining pollinators and ensure that people require their technology.

In fact, the individuals involved in killing the bees can be easily identified as corporations who manufacture the bee massacring pesticides, like Monsanto-Bayer, or DOW-Du Pont

References:

https://edge-canopy.com/2018/03/17/wal-mart-files-patents-for-robotic-bees-for-when-they-become-extinct/

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-robot-bees-farming-patent-2018-3?op=1

https://www.sciencealert.com/walmart-has-filed-a-patent-for-robot-bees-pollination-drones

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/05/robotic-insects-make-first-controlled-flight

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    • dakota

      “They would be like little drones, transporting pollen from plant to plant, utilizing cameras and sensors to detect the location of plants and flowers.” That’s not all they’ll be “utilizing cameras and sensors” for. See them? Capture and destroy them.

    • Pink Slime

      Hello Angle#3,

      Charlie here. Aye, this is a strange one. Why are bees dying in the first place? Where I live many creatures I use to see when I was a kid are all gone!! Canary in the mine??

      Don’t know what is causing it. Are internal-combustion fumes killing them? Or pesticides? Or heaven forbid, doughnut crumbs? :lol: :lol:

      I remember a huuuge colony of bees going down the street, and I mean HUUGE!! My brother ran out to witness the whole thing. Sounded like a hundred drones as they flew past our house. A colony as large as two buses. This was years ago. Did they sense the danger and moved? What a sight it was! :eek: :eek:

      But getting back to the bees. As you know, Charlie has been experimenting with a doughnut farm and would be highly interested in this bee technology to, you know, pollinate my doughnuts! :lol: :lol:

      Signed,

      Charlie (Confucious say – never speak ill of doughnuts) :lol: :lol:

      • CUB4DK

        I don’t know Charlie…doughnut crumbs,pollution or all of the above…lol. We are always being entertained by these DICK WADS who have controlled the SHOW since I can remember. We the people will get our chance soon!!!…however, the flying bees look kind of cool…LOL!

        Cheers, Uncle Hexy….no back to my patients…lol

    • 2QIK4U

      One type of Honey is already extinct.

    • Cousin_Jack

      A bee has to do more than fly but I’d be interested in creating the same thing, only to sting annoying people with and buzz round their ears.

    • wiseoldlady

      Is there any question for the mass loss of bees being the abnormal pollen in GMO plants as the deadly culprit??? plus chem trails…

    • Jayna Dinnyes

      No. No robotic bees because no time left. Sadly, bees have
      been dying at our front door for months now. Why? They
      could die on any of the flowers in our yard. I keep thinking
      that they come to be saved but I can’t save them! They have
      been messed with and so have we! Yahshua the Messiah,
      the Son of Yahweh returns on or before Yom Kippur, The
      Day of Atonement, 10~20~2018. However, much of the
      professed Bible believing world is DECEIVED by Christianity,
      :arrow: The Mark of the Beast! The #666 in Revelation 13:18
      Greek Diaglott, Free on The Web!

      “Come out of HER My people!” Yahshua in Revelation 18:4 :idea

      “HalleluYah!” Hebrew: “Praise ye Yah!” :lol:

      • dakota

        To ’4 Yahshua’:
        Stop calling God, “Yahwey” and stop calling Jesus “Yeshua” and you might get somewhere besides hell.

        Both are sarcastic names for God and Jesus, respectively and you know it. That is according to the Jewish Talmud, Christian Section. So the rest of you know, yes, it is admitted right there in print.

        Secondly, re “much of the professed Bible believing world is DECEIVED by Christianity”:
        Wrong. The bible believing world has been deceived by Judaism and so, too, has Christianity been deceived by Judaism as well.

        Wrong bible. Revelations is not of God, except that which was copied from THE BOOK OF APOCALYPSE.
        The remaining info that was not copied, was supplied by saytn himself. All bibles today have been tampered with by the jews (B’nai Brith).

        Just like B’nai Brith, you can refer to me as ONE OF THE LOOSE CANNONS.

        • CUB4DK

          Just like B’nai Brith, you can refer to me as ONE OF THE LOOSE CANNONS.

          Now, Now…there has always been LOTS of LOOSE CANNONS around here!…LOLOLOL!
          Cheers, Uncle Hexy

    • OBSERVER

      They ought to follow the research as to why the bees are dying and stop the culprits, also starting bee keeping industrial style with every genus and repopulate every corner of the planet

    • Man

      BIN writes the dumbest shit.

      If there were robotic bees that could polinate. It would have been used in china.

      The apple farms in south west china are all hand pollinated because of misuse of pesticides. No insects are living there for years

      • PaulTarsuss

        ‘man’ must love “sh!t” then….because he’s always here commenting on his diet!

        • Man

          Yep. You are the flies that swallow it.

    • Anon-e-mouse

      I’m looking forward to that robo-honey. Why not fix the pesticide and GMO poison problem and let the bees live?

    • Josie

      BS, they will bee a spy tool!

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