Support Ocean Guardian Robot On Kickstarter
by Miki SaxonCan you spare a few Starbucks visits to help
- save Atlantic reefs and fish;
- assure yourself a gourmet dining treat;
- create a new online sport;
- all of the above?
Easy to do.
Just donate to this Kickstarter campaign by June 3.
The problem is the unchecked proliferation of lionfish in the Atlantic; they are voracious eaters, have no local predators and females can spawn 2 million eggs a year.
Colin Angle, executive chairman of iRobot, a consumer robot company that builds and designs robots, and founder Robots In Service of the Environment (RSE), a nonprofit organization set up to protect the oceans, built a machine named the Guardian specifically designed to hunt and capture lionfish.
He also wants to turn lionfish hunting into an online sport. “With advances in wireless technology, we can actually have an app where people pay to go hunt lionfish and capture the fish by remotely operating the robot,” he said, adding that, if robots can catch lionfish, a new market in which chefs can turn an environmental hazard into gourmet cuisine might emerge. I’m not a gamer, but I’d play this one frequently! So click to donate; think what a difference donating just the value of a week’s worth of Starbucks visits — or more — will make. Video via BI
