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This bot hunts down starfish only (interestingengineering.com)
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Engineers developed RangerBot, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle, to combat the coral-devouring crown-of-thorns starfish using targeted lethal injections.

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[โ€“] thedoginthewok@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A starfish terminator?

Nice

[โ€“] liv@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Super weird how it injects them with bile!