Warehouse AMRAgriculture
COTSBot
Built by Queensland University of Technology
Updated May 2026·methodology
Overview
The COTSBot finds and eradicates crown-of-thorns starfish using a neural network to identify the starfish and injects bile salts to kill it, helping to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
Specifications
Category: Warehouse AMR- Type
- other
- Payload
- 30 kg
- Weight
- 30 kg
- Navigation
- other
- Safety cert.
- none
- Battery type
- other
- Maturity
- prototype
- Pricing model
- unknown
Detailed specifications
Other3
- Height Mm
- 1400
- Procedure Types
- Autonomous detection and lethal injection of crown-of-thorns starfish using bile salts[1][2][3]
- Deployment Notes
- Underwent sea trials in Moreton Bay; designed as first responder for eradication, with divers following; transitioned to RangerBot for broader use, but widespread deployment not occurred[1][2][5][6]
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