Google Impact Challenge Australia 2016
people depend on reefs for food
decline in coral cover has been seen on the Great Barrier Reef in the past 30 years
jobs rely on the Great Barrier Reef
This ‘Swiss army knife’-style robo reef protector, the RangerBot Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, will provide reef managers, researchers and community groups extra ‘hands and eyes’ in the water to:
This will all be done through an innovative vision-based technological tool unlike current manual, expensive acoustics-based, single-purpose solutions.
Over a year, the project will take a quantum technology leap to create the only fully autonomous, affordable, multi-function solution for effectively detecting and addressing threats to coral reefs.
The project will make RangerBot widely available and accessible to reef communities worldwide.
a quantum technology leap
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Design concept
