Robotic Bees: Engineering the Future - Robert Wood

The natural world has evolved such a wide array of living creatures, that it seems unfathomable that we could replicate many of them with machines. Yet National Geographic Emerging Explorer Robert Wood has started trying to create robots that mimic the natural world, to the point that they could be programmed to socialize like ants or bees. Wood founded the Microrobotics Lab at Harvard University, where they experiment with unconventional materials and models to help create the robots of the future that do the jobs that are too dangerous or dirty for people or animals to do.