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I saw this episode of Octonauts. There weren't any robots.

blather, blather, blather, blather, BAIL.

Can they save the coral reefs from humans?

smilingcorpse: Can they save the coral reefs from humans?

I'll ask Skynet if it has any plans.

Aquapope

They should genetically engineer the starfish to taste like chocolate. I bet lots of people would lick a chocolate starfish.

This was a cool idea, back around 2015.
It even had press coverage and won an award for being a cool idea, and even has a crappy wikipedia page full of dead links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTSBot

The project seems to be dead or on hold.
https://www.barrierreef.org/what-we-do/projects/rangerbot
the latest news is from March 2018
https://www.barrierreef.org/news/news/bot-vs-lizard-rangerbot-put-to-the-test

I don't know if the new version called RangerBot didn't work very well, there isn't a big starfish problem now, or they can find no funding.

Then again it is just one of the many projects of the 2 university guys involved.
https://research.qut.edu.au/qcr/Projects/rangerbot/

The Starfish Council is angry!

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