What COTSbot Sees When it Spots a COTS (VIDEO) Queensland University of Technology This video is under embargo. Please login to access this video. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Caption QUT roboticists have developed the world's first robot designed to seek out and control the Great Barrier Reef's crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), which are responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the reef's total decline in coral cover. This is what the COTSbot sees when it spots a COTS. This video taken by divers on was used to train the COTSbot. Credit Dr. Feras Dayoub, QUT Usage Restrictions Use only in relation to this news story. Credit Dr Feras Dayoub, QUT License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.