The bees are in trouble, meaning so are we.
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00:00Our planet's bee populations are in serious trouble.
00:07According to a recent University of Maryland and Auburn University study,
00:10even managed bee hives in the U.S. have lost on average more than 30% of their bees every year for the last 10 years.
00:16And bees are an important part of our ecosystem, pollinating the plants we need to survive.
00:21Which is why this tiny little device might be more significant than its small build size might indicate.
00:26This is what researchers at Finland's Tampere University call light robots,
00:30small pollen-carrying devices that are controlled by light.
00:33They model the robot from naturally occurring floating seeds,
00:36but these feature tiny hairs that gather pollen before floating to their destination.
00:40The whole device is controlled via light, which you can see here as the robot responds to changes in brightness.
00:46Lead researcher on the project, Haozang, had this to say about it.
00:49Superior to its natural counterparts, this artificial seed is equipped with a soft actuator.
00:54The actuator is made of light-responsive liquid crystalline elastomer,
00:57which induces opening or closing actions of the bristles upon visible light excitation.
01:02The next step, they say, is designing the bot to react specifically to sunlight,
01:06with the hopes that someday farmers might be able to release millions of these pollinators at a time,
01:10and let sunlight do the rest.
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01:15is creating a double wave of emissions from mass Tin точimaggee- fonctions.
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01:25in Europe to continue with its TOMI.
01:27Let's hear that.