Ecology meets Technology! - Yanko Design

What you're looking at is a hereafter where applied science weaves itself irreversibly into our flora and fauna. The Synthetic Pollenizer allows plants to artificially reproduce past attaching pollen to the bee'due south legs. The plant, in a lot of means, works exactly like a normal flower, but with a bunch of gears, servo motors, and extruders. The Pollenizer collects pollen from pollen traps (used for medical purposes), and extrudes them onto stamens that move in and out of the flower, coating themselves with the powdery yellow fabric. In the center of the flower lies the nectar pit, which fills with artificial nectar that designer Michael Candy fashioned from sugar and water. The bees nest on the artificial flower to drink the nectar, and are coated (every fourth dimension) with pollen. They then carry that pollen to existent flowers, facilitating the reproduction process. There's fifty-fifty a camera that livestreams the entire beautiful process of the bee flitting to the flower, drinking the nectar, and buzzing off with pollen attached to it.

Creating a convincing artificial pollinizer is difficult; bees are intelligent and are excellent navigators with highly astute sensors. The flowers are made from many different materials and processes, from 3d printed parts and glass to mitt-machined aluminum and brass, with initial prototypes being fabricated from newspaper. Michael Candy experimented with unlike breeds of flowers, from orchids to daisies. The blossom shown hither is the canola (or rapeseed) blossom. What a world we live in! First Nihon formulates drone bees to automate the pollination process, and now this artificial bloom!

Designer: Michael Candy