Coming, bee-inspired flying bots

                Scientists have created a computer model to look at how bees use vision to detect the movement of the world around them and avoid crashes, a breakthrough which could help develop autonomous flying robots. Bees control their flight using the speed of motion – or optic flow – of the visual world around them, but it is not known how they do this, said researchers at the University of motion-direction detecting circuits could be wired together to also detect motion-speed, which is crucial for controlling bees’ flight.