How bees shop
Posted in: 2003, VicWhat can bees teach us about speed shopping? Does trading off speed for accuracy pay? Bumblebees have been shown to have very fine colour vision – which they can use to find up to 5,000 flowers a day.
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Humanoid robots “a thing of the past”
Posted in: 2000, WARobots that look and behave like humans are proving too complicated and expensive to use in industry, and are being replaced by devices called ‘modular manipulators’. The manipulator is made up of modules, with each module performing one simple task, like putting a bolt in place or twisting it, or bringing two components together. The…
Fresh Science
Fresh Science is a national competition helping early career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery.
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