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The RangerBot drone is the first underwater robotic system designed specifically for monitoring, inspection and management of coral reef environments.
Using robot vision, it views and classifies coral species, and finds and removes invasive pests like the Crown of Thorns starfish, the scourge of the Great Barrier Reef. This ‘killer’ of an AUV releases a toxin through it’s injector arm that poisons the invasive starfish.
Developed by QUT, RangerBot also does nursemaid duty. Professor Matthew Dunbabin and the QUT robotics team can transform RangerBot into “LarvalBot’ to help deliver lab-reared baby coral larvae onto targeted reefs to distribute as 'larval clouds' on to damaged reef areas.