- It was made by a single industrial design student as a project.
- Itโs mainly intended to provide a larger scale demonstration of how bees pollinate because actual bees are tiny and you canโt see whatโs going on when they do it. Itโs primarily an educational tool.
But aside that, if you ever wonder why scientists work on all these little patch solutions for large, systemic problems, its because the people doing science research are not the people deciding how national and international policy is made.
Every time a scientist talks about how theyโre working on something like de-extinction projects or artificial albedo creation thereโs the inevitable sneering about how โwe should just not let the animals go extinct in the first placeโ or โwe should cut back on carbon emissionsโ as if those were not decisions being made by governments and oligarchs.
An industrial design studentโs authority in his society stops at โmake a cute robotโ.
And also, this is your daily reminder that โheadlines are lies designed to make you mad and/or get you to read the article.โ