Engineers design artificial intelligence varroa mite sensing bee hive | Bee Cause #1 | ABC Australia

Varroa mite is a blood sucking parasite that devastates bee colonies. Australia is the only continent still free from varroa. A team which worked on the Mars Rover project, has designed a hive that uses tiny cameras and artificial intelligence to detect hitch-hiking mites. And it could protect Australia’s most important pollinators.

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