Animals are prone to stick with their habitat and others like to take over which become listed as an unwanted species. This term is called invasive species, the species that have the tendency to spread its population into the most fragile areas where it cannot tolerate its presence. Furthermore, introducing an invasive species where it doesn’t belong can hurt not only the environment but our economy too. People do not know that dumping home pets into the wild will make a change to its surrounding by either taking over or destroying the food chain. When thinking of invasive species, it is often thought as animal or fish is exotic. Many species will usually go unseen or ignored until it makes a huge impact in our native species and ecosystem.
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The use of technology which is in a form of a robot. This robot is called RISE, it is being said to be a cousin to a vacuum cleaner. The ability to terminate the unwanted lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean. In fall of 2015, this robot was an idea after many failed attempts on experiments with beams with lionfish and groupers from a CEO of iRobot and maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum. Two models were made which were a spearing robot that carried a spear gun which would be used spear the lionfish and the second model is a zapper robot that would electrocute them by two robot metal electrodes arms. The second model seems to be the most humane advantage since spearing is identified to be unreliable. The unreliability to miss its target and potentially damage the environment instead of protecting it. The zapper robot can make sure only the lionfish is being targeted. How is that possible? The matter of chemistry in the ocean, saltwater is highly conductive making sure the zapper has precise measurements of paralyzing the fish between the two electrodes. Is technology our way to eradicate these invasive species? It is also to think of outside of the box and that the factors of leaving the lionfish is more of an issue than killing them in a inhumane matter? I would say that thinking more than just one species which they are nonnative to is much better be of killing than to be dealing with diversity loss which is a bigger picture that can potentially effect the world we live
The use of technology which is in a form of a robot. This robot is called RISE, it is being said to be a cousin to a vacuum cleaner. The ability to terminate the unwanted lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean. In fall of 2015, this robot was an idea after many failed attempts on experiments with beams with lionfish and groupers from a CEO of iRobot and maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum. Two models were made which were a spearing robot that carried a spear gun which would be used spear the lionfish and the second model is a zapper robot that would electrocute them by two robot metal electrodes arms. The second model seems to be the most humane advantage since spearing is identified to be unreliable. The unreliability to miss its target and potentially damage the environment instead of protecting it. The zapper robot can make sure only the lionfish is being targeted. How is that possible? The matter of chemistry in the ocean, saltwater is highly conductive making sure the zapper has precise measurements of paralyzing the fish between the two electrodes. Is technology our way to eradicate these invasive species? It is also to think of outside of the box and that the factors of leaving the lionfish is more of an issue than killing them in a inhumane matter? I would say that thinking more than just one species which they are nonnative to is much better be of killing than to be dealing with diversity loss which is a bigger picture that can potentially effect the world we live