

“To bee or not to be.” — BeeWise website slogan
Around the globe, bees are in trouble. Experts say a population decline is largely due to rigorous farming, some pesticides, and natural parasites. The bee trauma forecasts problems for fruits, vegetables, flowers, nuts. But a new robotic hive could help bees come buzzing back.
God made bees to transfer pollen from blossom to blossom, thereby participating in pollination. Once pollinated, plants produce fruits and seeds that will become new plants. Some birds and butterflies also pollinate, but honeybees are the world’s top pollinators.
Bee expert Hallel Schreier says, “Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, nuts [that] we eat.” Some scientists predict that without bees, about a third of all human food would disappear.
For years, companies have experimented with technologies to slow down mass colony collapse (loss of worker bees in a hive). Tactics have included placing sensors on traditional wooden beehives as well as methods like artificial pollination.
But Israeli startup BeeWise insists the problem is beekeeping’s “150-year-old technology: a wooden box.” The company’s promo video proposes that “to save the bees, we don’t need to think outside the box. We need to reinvent the box.”
To that end, BeeWise has developed a next-generation hive.
Roughly the size of a cargo trailer, BeeWise’s high-tech hive—called a BeeHome—houses 24 colonies. The solar-powered hive allows beekeepers to monitor and treat bees and hives remotely.
A computer addresses hive and bee health onsite, when needed—without human intervention. This kind of ’round-the-clock care minimizes the risk of collapse.
Buzzing bees drown out the hum of a robotic arm. One after another, the BeeHome scans stacks of honeycombs housing up to two million bees. The machine inspects for disease, monitors for pesticides, and then reports any hazards threatening the colony. It can also harvest honey inside the hive, adjust temperature and humidity, apply medicine, and combine or split hives.
BeeHome features computer vision, artificial intelligence, and precision robotics. Color-coded openings on the sides allow bees to come and go. “Anything a beekeeper would do, the robotic mechanism can mimic and do it more effectively without ever getting tired, without going on vacation, and without complaining,” says BeeWise CEO Saar Safra.
BeeHome doesn’t replace the human beekeeper. Like any machine, the BeeHome must be programmed and serviced. But with an efficiency no human could match, it sure makes the apiarist’s job easier.
The BeeWise website claims its computerized BeeHome works “as if every bee had her own beekeeper 24/7, rain or shine.”
Why? In wisdom, God created both bees and beekeepers. As new challenges arise, God also gives creativity and wisdom to face those challenges with innovation for all the world’s good.
Pray: For the thriving of bees around the world and for hearts to protect God’s creation by our actions and thereby honor Him.
first comment
ha ha I have the first comment. but I guess this is pritty cool
2nd comment
yea but first comment on 8 different things
3rd comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is interesting
4th
yaa no more be stings
5th
Wow, this is pretty cool.
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A couple years ago...
Animal rights activists: Let the Bees bee free!
Congress: YES YES YES!!
President: no.
This year
Animal rights activists: Let the Bees have rights like people so they have all the rights in the constitution.
Congress 50/50
Vice Pres: 51/50 the bees get rights!
President: YESYESYESYES!!!!
I love bees
i am a bee keeper so this is really cool because all of my bee hives contracted the colony colaps disorder and all of them died. i hope that this new creation is successful and hopefully eventual affordable
@Caden W
Ha, what's this world coming to...
@Ethan K
Wow you are a beekeeper??? Wow that’s cool. THis article is RLy cool the robot part is so cool
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i kinda dont like bee's and wasps because are cousins have a basketball hoop that has 6 wasp nests in it and they got rage at me so now im scared of bees and wasps but this is still cool
Without bees a third of our
Without bees a third of our food would disappear?!? I didn't know that