Reef robocop rescue

DOZENS OF UNDERSEA robots could soon be combing the northern Queensland waters, taking on a major threat to the Great Barrier Reef – coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) plagues.

Crown-of-thorns starfish () outbreaks are a leading cause of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and in 2015 Matthew Dunbabin and Feras Dayoub, roboticists from the