Bees

Well I am sure the actual robot would be easy to design, but the AI would probably have to be pretty fucking advanced. Its interesting how fucking advanced AI would have to be for something thats pretty much as dumb as a piece of sand.

it would be so interesting to design, im struggling not to try drawing up designs for a beebot already!

http://www.gorobotics.net/the-news/latest-...flight-theories

  karmakramer said:

Well I am sure the actual robot would be easy to design, but the AI would probably have to be pretty fucking advanced. Its interesting how fucking advanced AI would have to be for something thats pretty much as dumb as a piece of sand.

well, individual bees are pretty stupid, but in large groups bees seem to function as a HIVE MIND. like, say you put a plate of sugar out on a boat in the middle of a lake and one lone bee finds it. on the way back to the hive, it runs into another bee and does a little dance saying, "hey, there's sugar in the middle of the lake!!" the other bee rushes off to get in on the action. however, the original bee goes back to the hive, does the same dance, "there's sugar in the middle of the lake" and somehow the hive responds "there can't be sugar there, that's the middle of the lake."

end sum being, the hive could perform cognitive operations a lone bee could not.

cellular automatons, crazy shit.

edit: additionally, the lone bee was right, the hive was wrong. you can be dumb and right or smart and wrong.

I wonder if they could use nanotechnology in some fashion for this...

robot bees!

there is really nothing more terrifying.

They would take longer to fly anywhere and you would here them coming well in advance, imagine the weight difference.

hear

if there were robot bees, everyone would try to collect them, so they would need electric shock stingers

a bee, today:

  tauboo said:

if there were robot bees, everyone would try to collect them, so they would need electric shock stingers

maybe so, but if theyre government property or something and they each have GPS sensors, it'd be pretty foolish to try and steal them, though theyd need some sort of electric shock defense anyways to avoid getting eaten by birds. Also if you're just using them from a commercial standpoint they wouldnt need to go that far from whatever they need to polinate.

  karmakramer said:

  42Orange said:

  Godwin Austen said:

i bet if tomorrow headline in the news says "last ounces of silicium and last barrell of oil" everyone would just freak out. loose their minds.

 

as opposed to "last bee sells on ebay for 2.5million"?

 

It would be kind of cool if we found a way to develop a robo-bee to pollinate our crops for us. I would be stoked as fuck to have a couple of robo-bees gettin down in my garden.

 

man... this would indeed be awesome. maybe the bees dieing is actually in the end a good thing?

 

I mean ever since we have started fucking around genomes and shit... humans have basically become god.

 

its our world now bitches... bees that pollinate and also piss honey in your mouth whenever you want them too!

nano-bees!

or nanobots

our retarded reproduction organs in the future will need...

...nanospermenhancer

or....

think of the POWER!

Holy FUCK YES!

Seriously, no one?

  hahathhat said:

  karmakramer said:

Well I am sure the actual robot would be easy to design, but the AI would probably have to be pretty fucking advanced. Its interesting how fucking advanced AI would have to be for something thats pretty much as dumb as a piece of sand.

 

well, individual bees are pretty stupid, but in large groups bees seem to function as a HIVE MIND. like, say you put a plate of sugar out on a boat in the middle of a lake and one lone bee finds it. on the way back to the hive, it runs into another bee and does a little dance saying, "hey, there's sugar in the middle of the lake!!" the other bee rushes off to get in on the action. however, the original bee goes back to the hive, does the same dance, "there's sugar in the middle of the lake" and somehow the hive responds "there can't be sugar there, that's the middle of the lake."

 

end sum being, the hive could perform cognitive operations a lone bee could not.

 

cellular automatons, crazy shit.

 

edit: additionally, the lone bee was right, the hive was wrong. you can be dumb and right or smart and wrong.

most species of bee are solitary