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Robots and chefs come together to protect the ecosystem

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Source: AOL

In an attempt to protect the ecosystem, chefs gathered in Bermuda on Wednesday for a competition named the “Lionfish Throwdown” where they challenged one another to make the tastiest lionfish. Interestingly, Lionfish is a venomous carnivorous fish, whose out of control numbers due to lack of predators are destroying marine ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. In the  Atlantic waters and females can spawn nearly 2 million eggs per year.

“Every chef likes to be sustainable in what they are doing,” said Chris Kenny, head chef on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.

“Lionfish are going to keep spreading, and it’s not going to stop unless people step in and do something about it.” he added.

“On reefs where sports divers are actively diving with harpoons to try and control the lionfish, they actually do a pretty good job,” said Colin Angle who recently founded Robots In Service of the Environment (RSE), a nonprofit organisation set up to protect the oceans by applying scalable robotic technology built a machine named the Guardian specifically designed to hunt and capture lionfish. The device is still in its early stages of development.

 

“But that’s a very small percentage of the ocean … We needed something far more flexible that could go far deeper, longer.” Angle added.

“We basically drive the Guardian up to the fish, position it between two electrodes, apply a current and stun the fish, knocking the fish out. Then there is a motor at the back of the robot which creates a current into the robot and it sucks that fish into the robot,” he said.

“With advances in wireless technology, we can actually have an app where people pay to go hunt lionfish and capture the fish by remotely operating the robot,” he said, adding that, if robots can catch lionfish, a new market in which chefs can turn an environmental hazard into gourmet cuisine might emerge.

 

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