Bees are really just tiny drones right? They scuttle out, pick up packages of pollen and return and repeat. Researchers are learning from the Bumblebees and other aerial fauna to improve drone flight.
Bumblebees apparently have a keen sense of their own size. And that allows them to fly through complex and cluttered environments without crashing or wrecking their delicate wings. It’s a possible learning moment for an autonomous drone.
The lead author, Dr. Sridhar Ravi, examined how bumblebees flew through a tunnel blocked by a series of different-sized gates. The bees are so aware of their size that they knew how to contort themselves to get through smaller openings. This awareness was believed to be a characteristic only of animals with large brains.
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