An artist’s conception of a robotic bee, created as part of the Harvard RoboBees Project, one of three Expeditions in Computing announced Oct. 6, 2009 (image courtesy NSF). » An artist’s conception of a robotic bee, created as part of the Harvard RoboBees Project, one of three Expeditions in Computing announced Oct. 6, 2009 (image courtesy NSF).

An artist's conception of a robotic bee, created as part of the Harvard RoboBees Project, one of three Expeditions in Computing announced Oct. 6, 2009 (image courtesy NSF).

An artist’s conception of a robotic bee, created as part of the Harvard RoboBees Project, one of three Expeditions in Computing announced Oct. 6, 2009 (image courtesy NSF).