{"id":422596,"date":"2026-08-03T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:36:06","slug":"meet-californias-new-shark-hunting-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422596\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet California\u2019s New Shark-Hunting Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not your imagination. Shark sightings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/el-nino-california-shark-activity-b3025731.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">really are increasing<\/a>\u00a0off the California coast, thanks to warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures driven by this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o. But have no fear \u2014 California State University, Long Beach\u2019s Shark Lab has a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new\u00a0Shark Surveillance Bot (SSB)\u00a0designed to scan California waters for the presence of sharks. The device is still a prototype, but researchers hope it will eventually provide real-time information to lifeguards to help improve beach safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur data suggests that there are sharks around our beaches all the time without incident, but knowing what sharks, and how many are out there, helps lifeguards make better decisions in beach safety operations and in advising the public,\u201d said Shark Lab Director Christopher Lowe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance bot will be especially useful for great whites \u2014 the apex predator of the Pacific coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe device will listen for tagged great white sharks and test the water for shark environmental DNA, genetic identifiers found in shed skin, scales, blood and excrement,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/california\/cal-state-long-beach-deploys-new-shark-surveillance-drone-to-improve-beach-safety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe robot will also have an aerial drone nesting on its back to provide a bird\u2019s-eye view of the water. When complete, the shark-detecting robot will stream the data and 360-degree video back to the CSULB Shark Lab through Wi-Fi.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more about\u00a0the new Shark Surveillance Bot\u00a0and the future of shark monitoring <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/california\/cal-state-long-beach-deploys-new-shark-surveillance-drone-to-improve-beach-safety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not your imagination. Shark sightings really are increasing\u00a0off the California coast, thanks to warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures driven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-422596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}