A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are ...

Abstract: Due to restrictions on bees and the lack of wind in the greenhouse, pollination could be a labor-intensive activity. Hence, an automated pollination process is preferred to improve the ...

Blue orchard bee. Photo: Scott Bauer. Minnesota is home to over 500 bee species. Some live in large, social colonies, but most are solitary, with fewer than a dozen bees per nest. People manage a few, ...

Abstract: Flower pollination algorithm is widely applied for optimization problem in smart power industry. It is easy to fall into local optimum that lead to the shortcoming performance of convergence ...

Singapore-based Polybee has raised a $4.3 million seed round led by Paspalis Capital and elev8 VC to scale its pollination and yield forecasting tech, delivered via a fleet of tiny drones that serve ...

LOGAN, Utah — From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Director of the Postgraduate Program at YARSI University, Indonesia, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, discussed the emergence of the Nipah virus, which has been spreading in South and ...