Bees find refuge from perilous world in robotic hive – Israeli startup Beewise develops robotic arm that scans stacks of honeycombs, inspecting them for disease and pesticides and reporting in real time any hazards that threaten the colony; tool appears to be more efficient than humans | ynetnews

The buzz of the bees drowned out the hum of the robotic arm, which worked with an efficiency no human beekeeper could match.
One after another the machine scanned stacks of honeycombs that together could house up to two million bees — inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides and reporting in real time any hazards that threatened the colony.