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Scientists Develop Killer Robots That Inject Poison Into Coral Munching Starfish

posted by janrinok on Wednesday September 09 2015, @03:27AM   
from the needle-match dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

Scientists hoping to preserve coral reefs have developed an autonomous submarine to help control populations of crown-of-thorns sea stars. The sea stars devour coral at alarming rates, and are surprisingly hardy. Missing limbs simply regrow after being removed, so scuba divers have had to resort to injecting the starfish with poison up to 10 times each.

The autonomous robot can stay underwater for up to six hours, and uses a new poison that requires only one injection. The robot identifies the sea stars using a sophisticated image processing algorithm. The new poison is allegedly harmless to other sea creatures.

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• Re:fixing a problem we cause Re:fixing a problem we cause (Score: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday September 10 2015, @08:53PM

  by morgauxo (2082) on Thursday September 10 2015, @08:53PM (#234911)

  Um... you don't think that the extra nutrients are also human caused? A lot of that is probably unatural fertilizer. Even the natural stuff, much of it should have been filtered through swamps which have been filled or drained before reaching the sea.

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• Re:fixing a problem we cause (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 11 2015, @01:25AM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday September 11 2015, @01:25AM (#235019) Journal

  Have you replied to the wrong comment?

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