Automated Aquaculture and Coral Reef Conservation: New Technology Enables Robots To Detect, Respond to Coral Stress Caused by Extreme Weather Events

Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it's largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching in 2020 and 2022, but temperatures cooled just in time to prevent extensive coral deaths.