This Bot Hunts Down Starfish ONLY
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2023
- The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is a significant threat to coral reefs, especially in regions such as the Great Barrier Reef. This spiny starfish preys on corals, and while its consumption of coral might be natural, two factors have exacerbated its threat level: warmer oceans that enable its proliferation and its astounding reproductive rate, with a single female producing up to 200 million eggs.
To combat this menace, engineers introduced COTSBot, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). This robot was specifically designed to identify and exterminate COTS using a toxin derived from bile, which, while deadly to the starfish, is harmless to other marine creatures. Through advanced machine learning and computer vision, COTSBot achieved a nearly perfect identification accuracy of 99.4%.
However, there were challenges. COTSBot was relatively large and not cost-effective for large-scale deployment. Hence, its successor, RangerBot, was developed. Smaller, cheaper, and armed with a longer battery life, RangerBot doesn't just seek and destroy COTS; it can also monitor water quality, detect coral bleaching, and identify pollution, providing a comprehensive solution for preserving coral reef ecosystems.
While deploying robots to tackle environmental issues might sound unconventional, in the case of the crown-of-thorns starfish, it could be the best hope for saving our precious coral reefs.
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If you touch it you can die in 30 minutes...
Proceeds to show footage of a diver holding one with his bare hand.
RIP.
He’s EDGING
Don't understand why those guys don't wear gloves. Saw one guy get stung once who was trying to remove it. He didn't die but his hand was swollen like crazy.
crap ai documentary...cant even find any deaths from this starfish except for a rare anaphalactic reaction....
They aren't that veneomous more like a sea urchin
I was under the impression the Octonauts had already taken care of this problem.
So funny as my kid is obsessed with Captain Barnacles and Kwasi
I love you
@@Richs_reefI used to watch octonauts in 2nd grade
@@Richs_reef I was obsessed with octonauts in 2nd grade
"It's like a Terminator, but for starfish."
-NOT ZeFrank1, surprisingly.
Skynet has entered the chat
Now all we need is a Bot that kills invasive Jellyfish.
Just a matter of time before they come up with a robot that kills only mice, mosquitos, and then only terrorists.
@@lchristophor3107and after kapitalist😂😂
And lionfish but I think there's something already made for them
Or people I’m not sure if you know, but they’re pretty bad for the environment
@@JW-ff1ncthat was the first bot
2024: Poisonous Star Fish Detected.
2030: Human Threat Detected.
I mean this wouldn't have been needed in the first place if it wasn't for us
*proceeds to stab a mannequin with an adversarial patch on it*
“I told you they’re still stupid, Greg”
Now all we need is a Bot that kills LIONFISH AND GREEN CRABS
And Italians! ...Right?
@@mikew3194 never reelly had a problems with italians
@@mikew3194, yup cause they are egoistic narcissist
@@QuantumChristsays the weirdo loser with a Pokemon pfp lol
@@QuantumChrist Whoa buddy enough with the racism, I'm Italian and way smarter and probably more handsome than your entire lineage combined.
So these are basically the Skynet of the starfish world.
Accurate
Buoys that use either solar or the ocean currents to produce electricity could be made to recharge these and make them 100% autonomous
How then would you recharge the bile?
This is beginning to sound like Horizon the video game franchise
@@slickswings Floating sheep farms? It could grow seaweed to feed them 😂
Stop harvesting Triton shelfish, than there will be less crown of thorn starfish!!!
Man loves playing God.
But the Asians need it to gain immortality or something
@@Rexington Stop blaming the Asians for everything, the ocean is connected to every part of of the continent, everybody is accountable and the problem with the starfish is due to run off from the sugarcane farm that is increasing unwanted nutients to the ocean.
So don't blame other nationality for the global problems, to me you sound like you are suffering from xenophobia.
So please stop, ok.
@@lasserbream for sure you re asian, stop denying your responsability, so please stop, ok
@@Feyser1970 I've seen all sorts of people doing the wrong thing, so stop the cap mate, you wouldn't even know if I was black, so stop the cap.
Watch out Patrick
Yep
who is patrick ?@@user-kj9no2oz3y
Patrick will be okay , this is his evil cousin 😂😂😂
@@godofobelix "HIYAA!!!"
I have to have the thought, “is this ai voice?” but as I listen longer, I realize it’s a genuine, professional narrator, due to his inflections, pauses, and breaths. It sucks that viewers now have to condition themselves against channels which use ai voice, and the only suspicion my brain came up with was the result of the editing not allowing any breaks in narration.
I hate the ai narrators.
I was thinking the same!
I just don't mind if it's ai if the video is good and images are coherent to that he is sayng
Omg I was thinking the same thing.
I feel really bad for the very professional voice actors with perfect diction and a steady cadence. I’m so jaded by ai
Imagine swiming with a speedo that has crown-of-thorns starfish print on it and that BOT gets you in the azz ! :)))
Good thing it’s harmless to us, although having a digestive enzyme in your blood will probably hurt a lot
I've heard that some marine organisms spread around the worlds oceans by way of their larvae existing in ballast water that vessels take in and subsequently release. Assuming this is a possible way for COTS larvae to spread, it will forever be challenging to maintain their numbers.
Having said that, this is a very clever, yet somewhat chilling use of technology.
You would be correct . Most countries have a law that ballet water collected from other regions able be dumped at a certain distance from the shore line to help prevent spread but that is not a perfect solution nor is it obeyed in a lot of cases
@@unnamedchannel1237 Wonder if there's a proportion of chlorine or something that can be added to kill lifeforms before draining, and in draining it would be diluted to a level it wouldn't effect the local marine life. Spitballing. Good luck Earth.
Aside from what the other person mentioned ships also have different levels of ballast water filtration to limit amount of organisms in them
This robot only has an 8 hour battery life, so maybe they clean it after each use?
I don't understand why we always want to change the natural ecosystem, in thinking that it will then change for good. How do we humans know, that this animal is bad for the vast global ecosystem? As if we do know what is best for the natural ecosystem, while we always manipulate and destroy it over time. We don't know the long term affects of our intervention into a world that has been evolved over millions of years, where such animals existed far before we existed.
Idea: bigger toxin tank. Solar cells on top. Nocturnal hunting system using either lights or IR. Slight positive buoyancy requiring power to keep it down. It goes until the battery dies, floats up, recharges, and goes back to hunting when the sun goes down. ET phones home when the toxin tank is low for a service boat to come see it. This would seriously reduce manpower, expense, and carbon footprint without too much increase in cost per unit.
Idea: Powered by Cambodians running on a hamster wheel. 16-way power heated seats. A copy of The Catcher in the Rye. When the Cambodians stop running, it floats to the surface and becomes a 7-Eleven. This would seriously be cool!!!
Wow. I forgot how smart people are on the internet. Especially us Americans. Setting the bar for intellect, class, and.... Oh. Wait. What's that you say? Ronald Regan defunded our public schools in 1981. Yes... Yes I see that rather clearly now. 🙄
Seems like a solid idea, I wonder what the difference is in the upfront cost
@@isocarboxazid You'r an idiot.But I'm sure I'm not the first person to point that out.
@@joshuagift5635 It's embarrassing, isn't it.
Starminator
Could this be made to work on Lionfish?
of course it could...
No need to use this kind of work on Lionfish when you can just eat them.
@@chuyocuck285 - they could certainly collect them for food as well. We just need to prevent them from killing off all the other fish...
You just asked my question
The guy who invented the Roomba has already tested a lionfish killer robot off of Bermuda.
As someone who works with computer vision professionally, a 99.4% accuracy means nothing without knowing the distribution of their data. For example, suppose you want to train a model to detect a disease which occurs in 1% of your samples. If your model simply predicted that the patient was healthy for every sample, it would be right 99% of the time, despite being totally useless. I'd be much more interested in knowing their system's precision and recall scores, as opposed to simple accuracy.
What reason would anyone have for establishing a success rate metric not calculated as number of positive IDs divided by number of candidates which are the target? If someone is looking for a census program, they would need to perfect this metric first anyway.
@@devon9075 It depends on what is worse, a false positive or a false negative. If missing a single cot is the worse scenario, you'd want to minimize your false negatives. On the other hand, if killing a non cot is the worse situation, you'd want to minimize your false positives. That's why you might be interested in recall OR precision. More practically, you'd probably want to look at both precision and recall since it's usually a trade off.
The Words said combined with the music is the most absurd thing I've seen for a long time.
Deshalb hab ich meinem Starmie damals "Donnerblitz" beigebracht. "Psychokinese" und "Surfer" hätten gegen so nen Bot nicht gewirkt.
"Genesung" zur Sicherheit als vierte Attacke.
A man attempted to do this 80 years ago and it was frown upon.
It's because he went after the wrong [starfish].
He wasn't the best at marketing LockHeed won the Contract instead
Didn't have a fancy bot and marketing money
So how many does it kill per hour roughly? We want to know how effective it is.
You can research that on the internet.
@@zyxw2000 This is supposed to be that research, it's supposed to be presenting a generalized overview. How effective is one of the most important metrics to presenting this concept dumdum.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep But they're not replying to comments and the video is very short, so you have to find out yourself.
That would obviously depend on the starfish density, current, water clarity, and a variety of other factors...
Depends on whether it’s African or European, and whether or not it’s laden. The unladen European starfish can consume 2 cubic centimeters of coral per day.
Bob, you've got some seaweed stuck around your face. Hey, look at that robot drone thing. ZAP!
Narration: "This killer robot hunts starfish and injects them with a deadly poison!"
Background music: gentle piano lullaby
These starfish cannot kill you. They can cause pain that lasts from hours to days.
Giant Sea Snails are a natural predator of these star fish. Maybe we should breed and release these snails.
This is good at first sight, but we could end up having to help other starfish populations not get extinct
That's crazy talk. Then we'd have to breed a bunch of Fr*nch people to deal with the snails.
@@qbi-wan You have no idea what youre talking about. The giant Triton is the only effective natural predator of the Crown of Thorns. Due to very dum people overhunting and eating the giant Triton (who tf eats snails? 🤢) their numbers have decreased exponentially, making the CoT numbers explode, which is catastrophic for Coral reefs. So people just need to stop being stupid and eating sea Snails, so their numbers go back to normal. And no it wont endanger other jellyfish
Make this product a commercial product and you'll have a COTS (Commercial Off-the-shelf) COTSBot.
Omg, John Conner star fish sends one star fish back in time to stop the robot menis by whipping out Starfish kind
100% accuracy, is this even possible?
Nope
It's possible to say.
This starfish is basically us humans before we learned about conservation and preservation.
There are natural predators like Titan triggerfish, it almost seems easier to just boost the population of these predators than trying to produce a literal army of bots to cull an unimaginable number of the starfish. 1000 of these bots would barely scratch the surface and that’s already like half a billion dollars. Just fish farm a billion eggs of predators and drop them by plane lol
When the starfish stop being a problem we can remove the robots.
@@dexteradams6515 yea I thought about that, better yet they can be reprogrammed to hunt other problematic species so the entire robot isn’t wasted/recycled. Still though, it seems expensive and impractical to engineer a solution when life has already provided one.
If it were up to me I’d just leave the starfish alone. Humans don’t always need to meddle in everything. Let some things die off so there room for other things later kinda thing. If the coral reef is dying it’s because life has made it so. We are a cog in the wheel, not the programmer.
Tell the Chinese to stop netting whole reefs and killing everything. Argentina sank one of their fishing boats.
Then you get another invasive species which doesn't has natural predator
Take a bunch of tourists. Teatch them how to colect these starfish.
Give them some happy time under water.
Take the hunt result to the beach, let them dry. Make some souvenirs.
They are toxic to the touch, i can guarantee you some of them would get owned by the starfish
@@MihaiMezelthe starfish are for the most part not that lethal to humans, unless one is allergic to the toxins in the starfish and has an anaphylactic shock reaction. For the vast majority most symptoms are usually pain that lasts for about a week.
Sounds like a win to me. Do you know what a liability waiver is.
This is really awesome!! Are Lionfish next?? They should be.
Invent a tasty starfish dish and the reefs will be clear in a matter of months
Is it cost effective for each kill I think that is what will be the difference between failure to successfully working
Real life terminator not sent back in time to exterminate Sarah Starfish
Dawg patrick needs to run
Patrick Star sweating bullets right now.
Can the recipe for this bile be shared please
"Do you believe ALL starfish aren't harmless creatures?"
"This [one] starfish species is why you'd be wrong."
I guess the ocean is no longer safe from crown-of-thorns starfish and cameras.
Coming soon: a small autonomous aerial drone that hunts down invasive land species... including humans.
I like seeing updates to situations like this.
So there's a robot out there droning the sea hunting down and murdering starfish at will? That's terrifying
Excellent video! How you make videos and do research for videos ? Please share with us
Today starfish, Tomorrow .......?
Imagine fishing with an underwater “cuttlefish” drone
What about Taylor Swift?
Too big
Can't catch her she's too fast
That rare starfish need to be protect 😂
She's probably safe until the robots go full Skynet
@@sangmachaonah we have to get rid of environmentally devastating pests
Kinda impressive that we almost immediately come up with a Killer-Robot solution against certain wildlife, yet somehow are incapable of managing our own pollution.
Without pollution and climate change to bash over our heads, they'd lose a lucrative tool for controlling people. They're in no hurry to actually come up with a good solution. Just like doctors are in no hurry to find the cures for their biggest cash cows like cancer. Interesting time to be alive, isn't it? 😂
Our population is imploding.
Ever tried to manage a multinational petro-chemical corporation? Get it?
All Depends on who is paying the Bills.
Actually after 30 minuets the pain starts to abate. You are very unlikely to be killed!
Agreed. I have been stung. It hurts but you are unlikely to die unless you have a severe allergic reaction.
Had to chuckle after them saying that then showing a diver handling one with his bare hands
Codsworths grandfather 😂😂😂
Respect to those scientist and engineer for making this small submersible machine that kill those star fish that kill corals , scientist discover how to kill this starfish without harming nature
we need this for sea urchins...
"...but don't worry, scientists don't use human bile..."(3:31) Why would anyone care if human bile was used? I mean, as long as it was donated or somehow genetically copied in a lab. I think we - as a species - have more important things to be concerned with at the moment. It's pretty cool use of AUVs & machine learning to save endangered corals.
Its definitely not because they are going to use humans as baitfish.
Now we need to make a thousand of these to hunt lionfish
Super! Chapeau!
The title of this video just makes me think about starfish evolving in order to find ways to escape from a robot, which is a really interesting thought. In my opinion that biological life might have to evolved to adapt against machines.
How much does one cost?
Imagine it was in a tether to a floating solar panel so it could stay on the job for days
That's how every horror story with rouge AI takes places. Lol.
Make one for the lion fish near Florida
great now they can identify starfishes, what can they identify next?
Wait until the starfishes generate an immune response and turn carnivorous
Patrick! Run patrick ruuuuun! 😭
What happens to the captured star fish? Are they sold to aquariums across the world, sushi restaurants, cat food manufacturers?
i called this years ago. Eventually we will have custom designed killbots for each invasive species we want to get rid of. Also every tip/landfill will be dug up and valuable things extracted by robots.
What if I have crown of thorns prints on my swim trunks?
Human activities have effects on nature.
The reason why there are more COTS?
The GBR had INCREASED by 40% since 2011 - 2018, thus coral bleaching and COTS has increased.
The seas in the pacific have actually cooled but these channels will never give full context
Its awesome, now put some high tech solar panels to it and make sure its like 99% automatic
So the age old question of do we let robots make the decision to allow it to kill autonomous has hereby been answered. Im not against saving the coral reefs but can this same proces not just be done by human hands?
We have tried. In many ways. Outside of assigning military personnel to starfish assassination missions, there could never be enough manpower to do what needs done. We are talking millions upon millions
Oceans have been warmer before, on a regular basis. How were these starfish kept in check in the past?
AI: Starfish harm reef kill earth, kill starfish... human harm earth, kill human.
Does someone collect the injected starfish after? Can the injected starfish kill other sea life if they eat the starfish also?
No, and no.
That's the whole problem, starfish has no predictors.. Nothing will eat it.
@@hobo1704 lol "predictors"
@@corporateturtle6005 haha, cheers .. Love my predictive text POS phone..
@@hobo1704 🤚FAT FINGERZ! 🖐
The medicine they have inside them is probably crazy. Anything that can regenerate like that.
Ai please investigate this.
Where is my agent at?
Well have the killer robots on land and we won't be able to escape to the water either
Today Starfish , Tomorrow Humans !
Can they use this on urchins? 🤔
don't bother putting a solar charger on it, so it can hunt 24/7
Ahhh, an adaptation of humans’ favorite line of inventions- extinction machines! I’m happy we are making such leaps in this field, we will need to extinct ourselves here soon.
Imagine someone coming into your home and saying hey you don’t belong here.
Are you really that simple?
"This machine kills starfish.."
There fixed your title lol.
I'm sure it could be taught to kill other invasive species like the lion fish.
Diver with starfish print: 😳
Well this is awesome !
So no one gonna bother to fully investigate these starfish for potential usefulness or benefits somehow ?
Were are all the ecologists telling us how bad this is and we shouldn't be meddling in nature
Gonna be honest...I thought this was a movie trailer for an upcoming horror movie.
They invented kill bots. Have they never watched a sci fi film!
need one for lionfish as well
Wait..so it's deadly poisonous to us but we're deadly poisonous to it??
The reefs are dying because we keep going to the reefs! You can save the reefs by stop polluting and staying away.
Coral polyps die when the temperature is too high.
Could we programme this to puncture dinghies in the English Channel?
Now we need a bot to kill invasive bots
Yes, come to find out that temperature had nothing to do with coral bleaching, it was these damned starfish.
Coral bleaching is caused by temperatures that are too high. The tiny polyps in the shells die.
@@Gertyutz That was the propaganda, but corals in warmer waters did not bleach out where the Crown of Thorns Starfish were not around. The Great Barrier Reef has completely recovered and is doing well btw.
You just watched a video confirming what I just wrote and you're still blaming the temperature. How brainwashed are you?
Live will find the way, it will born starfish has the antidot
Yea that's a cool invention and all but I could've done the same thing for just a plane ticket to Australia and a pack of beer per day.
The starfish was eating coral way before humans knew how to scuba dive yet they are a problem now?
This is literally one of the worst idea I’ve ever heard of. I know an old woman who swallow a fly…
Great solution, but it's a bit unnerving! Who is next, and most importantly: last?!!
the only problem with unnatural selection is that the more successful the robot, the sooner you will have a population of mutant starfish that the bot doesnt recognise, and may well have even more undesirable traits
Because you're a marine biologist?
So what kept their number in check over the past 100 million years? Dinobots?
The natural predators are running scarce due to human activities like fishing and energy production, and just making a gorillion giant snails to eat the starfish doesn't seem like a good option.