Fish farming in the future is here today

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Fricken laser beams!

Norway already has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already protect more than 50 million salmon and trout 24 hours a day

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that attach themselves to salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and a single pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual solution is to pump the fish out and blast them with hot water or water jets to remove the lice

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report identifies it as the leading cause of death in adult farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one by one, all day long:

> two cameras monitor every salmon that swims past

> the AI checks two frames to make sure it's actually a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish keeps swimming along just fine and the louse dies

now we live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao