ABSTRACT This article investigates how robotic swarming entails new modes of sensing that not only blur the lines between human, insect and machine – and hence between natural and prosthetic sensoria – but also transcend beyond what the human sensory apparatus can possibly process and comprehend. Based on examples and analytical insights from the popular Netflix series Black Mirror the article analyzes how robotic surrogate bees capable of pollinating the world’s flora in order to prevent an ecological catastrophe is depicted in the episode “Hated in the Nation”. Thus, the article not only demonstrates how artificial intelligence and robotic swarms can expand, refine, or disrupt the sensory capacity of human perception – it also shows how the relationship between natural and artificial swarming is troubled by historical, social, and technical ties that altogether shed new light on the idea of machine autonomy.

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蜂拥而至的感觉：机器人蜜蜂和黑镜中的蜂群政治

摘要 本文研究了机器人集群如何带来新的感知模式，这些模式不仅模糊了人类、昆虫和机器之间的界限——因此也模糊了自然和假肢感官之间的界限——而且还超越了人类感官装置可能处理和理解的范围。文章基于 Netflix 热门剧集《黑镜》中的示例和分析见解，分析了“被国家憎恨”一集中如何描绘机器人代理蜜蜂如何为世界植物群授粉以防止生态灾难。因此，这篇文章不仅展示了人工智能和机器人集群如何扩展、完善或破坏人类感知的感官能力——还展示了自然和人工集群之间的关系如何受到历史、社会、