A team led by KAIST Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department’s Professor Hyeon Myeong has just finished testing the cooperative
assembly robot for jellyfish population control, named JEROS, in the field.
The rising number of accidents and financial losses by
fishing industry, estimated at 300 billion won per year, caused by the recent
swarm of jellyfish in coastal waters has been a major problem for many years.
The research team led by Prof. Hyeon Myeong began developing an unmanned
automated system capable of eradicating jellyfishin in 2009, and has since
completed field-tests last year with success.