Robot May Help CSUN Marine Biologist Find Clues to Protect Vanishing Corals

CUREE is about three-feet long and kind of looks like a complicated, convoluted video camera. This intrepid underwater robot may help California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds find clues for protecting vanishing coral species in the reefs of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Edmunds and Yogesh A. Girdhar, a computer scientist with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(WHOI) in Massachusetts, the world’s largest independent marine research facility, have received a combined $300,000 in EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore the use of an AI-powered robot—WHOI’s Curious Underwater Robot for Ecosystem Exploration (CUREE)—to survey coral reefs and find rare coral species whose number have declined to the point that it is nearly impossible for human divers to locate them…..

For more of the media release: https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/education/robot-may-help-csun-marine-biologist-find-clues-to-protect-vanishing-corals/