Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Researchers have developed and demonstrated robot with artificial intelligence capable of sorting, manipulating and identifying microscopic marine fossils.
This new technology automates tedious processes that play a key role in advancing human understanding of the world’s oceans and climate, both today and in prehistoric times.
“The beauty of this technology is that it’s built using relatively inexpensive components, and we do the design and the software artificial intelligence open sourcesaid Edgar Lobaton, one of the authors of the study paper.
Lobaton, who is also an Associate Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, said their goal was to make this tool widely accessible so that “it could be used by as many researchers as possible to advance our understanding of the oceans, biodiversity and climate”.
Named technology Forabot uses robotics and artificial intelligence to physically manipulate the remains of organisms called foraminifera, or foramina, so they can be isolated, viewed and identified.
Forams are protists, not plants or animals, and have been present in our oceans for over 100 million years. When the foramina die, they leave behind their tiny shells, less than a millimeter wide at most.
video-gallery--item__video-caption_read-video-article">The era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 or also known as the fourth generation has been marked by the emergence of supercomputers, intelligent robots, driverless vehicles, gene editing and developments in neurotechnology.
