Large jellyfish swarms have been drastically increasing over the past decades and have become a problem in many parts of the world, Hyun Myung, a robotics professor at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), tells IEEE Spectrum. And they aren’t affecting just marine life and infrastructure. “The number of beachgoers who have been stung by poisonous jellyfish, which can lead to death in extreme cases, has risen,” he says. “One child died due to this last year in Korea.”
So Professor Myung and his group at KAIST set out to develop a robot to deal with this issue, and last month, they tested out their solution, the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm (JEROS), in Masan Bay on the southern coast of South Korea.
via IEEE Spectrum
