RangerBot is an underwater drone that can keep watch on reef health and accurately identify and inject the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish.
Equipped with a high-tech vision system RangerBot can ‘see’ underwater and detect obstacles and manage tasks while being operated by a smart tablet!
Its unique design and intuitive user interface provides coral reef managers, researchers, and community groups with a targeted, affordable and reconfigurable solution for upscaling monitoring and managing reef ecosystems worldwide.
In 2016 it won the Google Impact Challenge People’s Choice prize.
Lead Researchers: Professor Matthew Dunbabin and Dr Feras Dayoub