[PLUG-TALK] Asian Shore Crab picker-bot

[Keith Lofstrom]

While I am a vegetarian tending towards vegan (oddball
physiology, not Bambi protection), invasive animal species
deserve to be eaten by omnivores, and invasive plants by me.  

I stumbled across http://eattheinvaders.org/
tagline: Fighting Invasive Species, One Bite At A Time

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One exemplar, recently showcased in a national newspaper, is
the Asian Shore Crab, spreading around the world in the chain
lockers of ships.

http://eattheinvaders.org/blue-plate-special-asian-shore-crab/

These are tiny little devils, not the sort of thing worth
picking apart in a restaurant, unless the maître d' lets
you linger all day doing thousands of fillet-ings with a
magnifier and tiny forceps. 

However, that is what ROBOTS are for; I can imagine a 
shoebox-sized robot processing "factory" on top of a small
refrigerator that spends all day extracting milligrams
of mini-crab meat ... while cleaning and sorting the
shells for processing into pharmaceutical grade chitosan. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitosan

Tidal Vision in Bellingham 

https://www.tidalvision.com/

might be a good customer for chitosan, IF a post-picking
processing stage can sort out toxic from clean shells.

They also hope to replace toxic(?) PFAS (polyfluoralkyl)
plastics ... some claim a lifetime eating off nonstick
cookware leaves a plastic spoon's worth of PFAS in your
brain.  I'm skeptical, but that could be a PFAS effect.

Robot adepts, get to work!

Keith L.

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com