Ontario teen builds AI-powered bionic robot turtle for quiet underwater ecosystem monitoring
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A 15-year-old Ontario high school student, Evan Budz, has built BURT (Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle), an AI-powered robotic turtle that mimics the swimming motion of snapping turtles instead of using noisy propellers. The device uses a Raspberry Pi and front-mounted camera to detect coral bleaching, invasive species, and plastic waste with 96% accuracy in testing. BURT represents a quieter, more environmentally friendly approach to underwater ecosystem monitoring.
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· 3 pulledA 15-year-old Canadian student has built a robotic turtle that may point to a quieter, gentler way of watching over underwater ecosystems.
The device, known as BURT (Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle), was created by Evan Budz, a high school student from Ontario, and is designed to move through water by copying the swimming motion of turtles rather than relying on noisy propellers.
In Budz's own testing, BURT detected replicated coral bleaching with 96 percent accuracy, using a front-mounted camera, a Raspberry Pi microcomputer
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