Ad of the Day: Greenpeace Imagines a Brave New World With Robot Honeybees

Worried about colony collapse? Problem solved

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This gorgeously realized two-minute Greenpeace film posits a near future where honeybees, currently threatened by colony collapse, are replaced by robotic simulacra that pollinate fields and keep our ecosystem in balance.

OMG, these robot bees will kill us all! That's more or less the response this video, from animation studio Woodblock and Alexander Kalchev, director with Polynoid, is designed to evoke, even though it merrily buzzes along without a single bee attack. In fact, the imagery and narration are sunny and reassuring.

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