# WorldIPDay快乐!来认识一下CHARM，一个养殖珊瑚的机器人。除了珊瑚team members and our wonderful friends are celebrating our first, patent-pending invention which combines #coralfarming with #roboticautomation to grow #coral!Research shows it takes 4,000 hours to clean and maintain 10,000 coral fragments… the equivalent of 3 people working full-time for 1 year! In order to restore our reefs at the rate they are dying, we estimate that 100,000 corals will need to be outplanted EVERY DAY. That's a lot of labor.Because staff labor accounts for approximately 50% of annualized costs at coral nurserises, CHARM aims to automate the frequent and reptitive tasks–such as cleaning, feeding, and fragging– to minimize time and expenses while maximizing coral.Another very important aspect of CHARM is that it built with commercial off-the-shelf parts and is affordable for the coastal communities who depend on coral reefs for their main source of food and income. By empowering the world with CHARM, we hope citizens will maximize the benefits of growing coral in a land-based nursery while minimizing the need to harvest coral from the wild.Beyond Coral Foundation is yet one year old but we are moving quick with #VR #technology and #oceanconservation for #environmentalstewardship. Feel free to reach out and see how you can help us save the #reefs!
