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Title    Scientists Develop Killer Robots That Inject Poison Into Coral Munching Starfish
Date    Wednesday September 09 2015, @03:27AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the needle-match dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/09/08/151255

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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  1. "Sir Finkus" - https://soylentnews.org/~Sir+Finkus/
  2. "developed an autonomous submarine" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/poison-robot-submarine?
  3. "sophisticated image processing algorithm." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3EpYfeJAk
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=9366
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