In order to protect the great barrier reef Australia has developed a robot killing

　　As one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the great barrier reef has been is Australia's proud, but expansion of the port, climate change and expanding the Crown-of-thorns starfish make serious threats to the great barrier reef, and that UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee is considering the inclusion of the great barrier reef endangered heritage list. Ben Goertzel in our lifetime wisdom of artificial

　　Didn't know you ever surprised when he saw three threats to the great barrier reef. Human activities directly or indirectly lead to the expansion of the port and climate change which endangered the great barrier reef is also understandable, but compared to the starfish and destructive human is somewhat astounding. But the fact is, the Crown-of-thorns starfish feeds on coral do have comparable to the destructive power of human--of course, coral.

　　Crown-of-thorns sea stars live in the shallow waters of coral reefs mainly feed on coral, in addition to Dafa screw almost no natural predators, in the great barrier reef this destructive giant Starfish should be responsible to more than 40% coral death. As early as 2012, Australia Government began to eradicate Crown-of-thorns starfish by means of poison, but poison requires divers to the Crown-of-thorns starfish toxin injections, the efficiency is very low, and Australia who came up with a great idea: submersible robot called the Crown-of-thorns starfish needle.

　　The killer robot known as COTSbot developed by the Queensland University of technology cleanse. And traditional meaning Shang of robot different, CSOTbot of shape more like is submersible device, its Shang equipment has GPS, and 5 a independent of propeller and a stereo camera, they will to COSTbot provides navigation, and power and Visual recognition system, and in submersible device of abdominal, vertical with a by hose and metal needles of composition of pneumatic injection arm, this is COTSbot of big killed device.

　　From a science and published by the University of Queensland from COTSbot carry a video camera, you can see how COTSbot is killing the Crown-of-thorns starfish. When COTSbot cruise, automatic identification system starts scanning the coral reefs, once after the Crown-of-thorns starfish is identified, pneumatic injection arm a specially crafted Starfish toxin injection in vivo.

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　　COTSbot rely on Visual recognition system to identification spine Crown starfish, Queensland Technology University of research personnel will advance to system within entered spine Crown Starfish of image data, and in killed Starfish of process in the, if appeared COTSbot cannot determine other whether for spine Crown Starfish of situation Shi, system will shooting picture and with back image for research personnel artificial confirmed, through this learning of process, COTSbot of recognition precision will gradually improve.

　　Once deployed, COTSbot will return to inventory the reef for up to 8 hours to kill at least 200 Crown-of-thorns sea star, then continued to play after the recovery, heavy, compared with manual efficiency will have a very big promotion.

　　By December of this year, COTSbot will be served in the great barrier reef, fighting the Crown-of-thorns starfish.