All CPU Can Bee

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Honeybees' role in pollination enables the production of at least 90 commercially grown crops, including apples, blueberries, melons and broccoli, but recently a dwindling bee population has led to concerns for the stability of this eco system. Industrial design major Anna Haldewang wanted more people to understand the significance of bees to human life -- so she created what's essentially a "bee drone" to be a functional teaching tool that couples technology and design. Plan Bee is a personal robotic bee (controlled by a smart device) designed to mimic how bees pollinate flowers and crops. Similar to how bees transfer pollen from one flower to another, the drone sucks in pollen from a plant and expels it onto other flowers to enable cross-pollination. Anthony and Jeff discuss robot bees and whether this might be the solution the planet is hoping for.

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0:00.0	I'm a human and as a human I eat.
0:02.4	I got fucking Maslow's hierarchy of needs going on.
0:06.1	Me too man, I hate having to get stuff and put shelter over my head.
0:10.2	All that stuff requires resources and resources are hard to come by.
0:13.7	Yeah man, that's why we have set up a Patreon.
0:17.1	So if you enjoy the show and you want to help us stay clothed and clean or whatever,
0:21.4	the fuck it is humans are supposed to be.
0:23.5	Half of those.
0:24.3	Patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:30.0	I'll be done with Zelda.
0:43.3	The house will be trashed.
0:44.7	I will be in sweatpants that I've been wearing for seven days.
0:47.0	That's not like a deal that you can't refuse.
0:49.0	How can you refuse this deal?
0:50.0	This is We Have Concerns.
0:51.0	Hi Jeff Goodotta.
0:52.0	Hi, I'm the new Carvoney.
0:53.0	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:56.1	So bees dying, right?
0:57.7	Yeah, is that still a thing?
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.5	I remember like a few years ago, we were all panicked about the bees dying and that was
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