Post by Warrigal on Nov 1, 2018 3:26:43 GMT -5
I have a niece who works for QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and they are into robots of all kinds in a big way. They have successfully developed bots to selectively kill crown of thorns starfish that cause enormous damage to the Great Barrier Reef. This article is about another initiative with Southern Cross University to recolonise dead sections of reef with baby corals.
1st November 2018
QUT’s reef protector robot is set to become ‘mother’ to hundreds of millions of baby corals in a special delivery coinciding with this month’s annual coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef.
In a world first, QUT's underwater robot RangerBot has been transformed into LarvalBot by QUT’s robotics team, led by Professor Matthew Dunbabin from the Institute for Future Environments.
More here, with photos: www.qut.edu.au/news?id=137688&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=larvalbot&utm_campaign=news
