{"id":190668,"date":"2019-06-28T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190668"},"modified":"2019-06-30T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:42:11","slug":"robobee-insect-drone-does-not-need-a-power-source-to-take-flight-for-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190668","title":{"rendered":"RoboBee Insect Drone Does Not Need a Power Source to Take Flight for Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas West \u2013 Activist Post June 27, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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For many years we have been discussing the arrival of drones that are designed to mimic nature<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 The concept of insect drones, however, dates back much further into the 1970s when a dragonfly drone was created by the CIA<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Curiously enough, the dragonfly structure was, at the time, thought to be more efficient than the bumblebee drone they had been working on.\u00a0 As stated by IEEE Spectrum<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1970s the CIA had developed a miniature listening device that needed a delivery system, so the agency\u2019s scientists looked at building a bumblebee to carry it. They found, however, that the bumblebee was erratic in flight, so the idea was scrapped. An amateur entymologist on the project then suggested a dragonfly and a prototype was built that became the first flight of an insect-sized machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when we hear of newer talks about how RoboBees will help alleviate the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a> among our pollinators (like this patent application from Walmart<\/a><\/strong><\/span>), let\u2019s never forget where all of this began.<\/span><\/p>\n

RoboBee first took flight back in 2013, which you can see in the following video:<\/span><\/p>\n