Hiveopolis: A robotic dancing bee
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A robot bee that mimics the honeybee waggle dance inside a real hive, built for the EU H2020 project Hiveopolis.
I was involved in the design and development of a Robot bee platform for mimicking bee wangle dance in a real beehive as a part of the EU H2020 funded project ’Hiveopolis’. In theory, such a robot could guide honeybees to a safe foraging site if humans determined that another site was contaminated with pesticides and was affecting the hive’s health. Also humans could direct honeybees away from a site that was being reserved for wild bees.
Robobee motion system with modular reproducible and modular body parts and electronics
Robobee Dummy with Thermoplastic polyurethane body and a electrically actuated flexible wing PCB
Trajectory measurements of the dancing bee robot
Experiments in a real hive conducted in 2022
