Sea Star

Meet New WALL-E

One of the most important questions in Marine Biology is how new species arise and shape the biodiversity of the ocean. WALL-E was developed to answer this question by studying cypridinid ostracods, a "sea firefly" with incredible biodiversity: many different subspecies output various light patterns which WALL-E catalogs. WALL-E is equipped with two cameras to record 3D videos of the bioluminescence, as well as a Photomultiplier Tube to record light levels with extreme precision. Both these features, combined with intelligent processing to recognize bioluminescence, rectify the video, and convert them from grayscale to RGB, will allow WALL-E's neural networks to identify the subspecies of ostracods, and even recognize new species.