{"id":45367,"date":"2026-06-14T02:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45367"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:55:40","slug":"a-15-year-old-in-ontario-built-a-bionic-underwater-robot-turtle-that-swims-like-a-snapping-turtle-instead-of-using-loud-propellers-and-its-onboard-ai-can-flag-coral-bleaching-invas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45367","title":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old in Ontario built a bionic underwater \u201crobot turtle\u201d that swims like a snapping turtle instead of using loud propellers, and its onboard AI can flag coral bleaching, invasive species, and plastic waste with 96% detection accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/a-15-year-old-in-ontario-built-a-bionic-underwater-robot-turtle-that-swims-like-a-snapping-turtle-instead-of-using-loud-propellers-and-its-onboard-ai-can-flag-coral-bleaching-invas\/33041\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/burt-robot-turtle-ai-coral-bleaching-detection.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:336px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A 15-year-old built an AI-powered robot turtle that detects coral bleaching, invasive species, and plastic waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/a-15-year-old-in-ontario-built-a-bionic-underwater-robot-turtle-that-swims-like-a-snapping-turtle-instead-of-using-loud-propellers-and-its-onboard-ai-can-flag-coral-bleaching-invas\/33041\/\">A 15-year-old in Ontario built a bionic underwater \u201crobot turtle\u201d that swims like a snapping turtle instead of using loud propellers, and its onboard AI can flag coral bleaching, invasive species, and plastic waste with 96% detection accuracy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old built an AI-powered robot turtle that detects coral bleaching, invasive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45370,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions\/45370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}