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Fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination (news.mit.edu)
4 points by gnabgib on Feb 22, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


This idea isn’t new, but it is more practical to achieve something like this today. However, I worry that anyone who actually tries to implement this will not consider all the side effects. Such as large scale electronics waste and pollution of the environment.


And any regulations that might have forced them to consider environmental impacts are probably gutted too.


Insects are fast and agile, already available, self replicating, and degradable. But let's invent something worse anyway.




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