Fascinating, Ann. I take it they would rebuild by using broken
pieces of coral -- or perhaps supporting coral that is beginning
to break. This could be a big deal given that coral reefs are in
bad shape all over the globe. I also wish we'd been able to see
what they look like. It's worth remembering that the by now
famous U of PA's flying robot quadrotor swarm learned to build
things https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/success_story/grasp_lab_drone
s_colbert_report as did a similar swarm in France http://www.des
ignnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=249645&image_numbe
r=2 Building things is what the coral-repairing swarm will do,
so it's not hard to imaging that, assuming the robots stay
waterproof, they'll be able to rebuild the reefs pretty quickly,
especially with enough of them. New versions of BASF's Ecovio
line are both compostable and designed for either injection
molding or thermoforming. These combinations are becoming more
common for the single-use bioplastics used in food service and
food packaging ap