The Artificial Life Lab of the University of Graz assembles researchers of various kinds of expertise ranging from programming to developing and constructing experimental setups, architecture and design, behavioural ecology, and honey bee biology. In the past, behavioural patterns of honey bees and fish have been implemented into groups of robots, and the communication of honey bees with fish was enabled via programming and technology. In this new project, HIVEOPOLIS, our aim is not to transfer behaviour from bees to robots but, for example, to communicate from robots to bees and to enable honey bee colonies to communicate with each other in order to strengthen them and to support their wellbeing.