COTSBot

COTSBot is a small intelligent underwater craft 4.5 feet long, which is being designed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to kill the very destructive crown of thorns starfish in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It identifies its target using an image-analyzing neural net to analyze what an onboard camera sees, and then lethal-injects the starfish with bile salts or similar using a needle on the end of a long underslung foldable arm.

It uses GPS. It has been in development for 10 years. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

External links

• Google search for images
• https://wiki.qut.edu.au/download/attachments/192519759/COTSBot_V2_Poster.png?version=1&modificationDate=1441116020000&api=v2
• image
• http://robotglobe.org/cotsbot-to-protect-great-barrier-reef-from-invading-starfish/cotsbot2/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-cAwubAfSU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3EpYfeJAk
• image of the robot

References

1. ↑ https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/COTSBot
2. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-31/cotsbot-hope-new-robot-will-stop-crown-of-thorns-starfish/6738320
3. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220579/Could-robot-save-Great-Barrier-Reef-Crown-thorns-killer-called-COTSbot-seeks-coral-destroyers-shoots-lethal-injection.html
4. ↑ https://www.wired.com/2016/04/starfish-killer-robot/
5. ↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-starfish-killing-artificially-intelligent-robot-is-set-to-patrol-the-great-barrier-reef/