Is this our future?

Chinese man manually pollinating fruit trees in China

Pollution, pesticide use and environmental destruction have resulted in the catastrophic loss of honey bees in areas of China. The situation has become so dire that farmers often have to pollinate fruits and vegetables manually—a costly, poorly efficient process.  Does the solution lie in the application of AI and IoT?

Curious (or brave enough) for more ... check out this brief PBS documentary.

08.06.24  My first day working at DesignLab as a Resident.  Happily sharing details of my project and plan .... and even after a year of thought ... 10 minutes into a consult and we're already radically improving the product.

Thanks to the team at DesignLab for supporting my project!

While my relationship with DesignLab is new, this project is not.  It's already one year since I first got the honey bee "bug" and started looking into how AI, ML-ML (machine listening-machine learning) could be used to help save THE most important animal in the world - the HONEY BEE.