Autonomous Robot Bees Are Being Patented by… Walmart? – Futurism

Robot bees could save agriculture while real bee populations dwindle. Image Credit: Polynoid/Greenpeace/Vimeo. Oddly enough, this is not the only farming patent that Walmart has filed recently. According to CB Insights, this is only one of six Walmart ...
Robot drone bees? It's not a horror movie, it's a Walmart patentUSA TODAY
'Robot Bees.' How Walmart Wants to Use Drones on Future High-Tech FarmsFortune
Walmart just filed a patent for robot bees amid ongoing battle with AmazonBig Think (blog)
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10 tech-savvy companies on the hunt for AI/robotics talent and IP

Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and JD.com from China are in a global competition with Google/Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Walmart and Amazon from the USA and SoftBank from Japan. All are agressively searching for talent, intellectual property, market share, logistics and supply chain technology, and presence all around the world. These leading tech-savvy companies have many things in…

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