Barry's method tells the robot about an object's nature, focusing its attention on the most effective interactions -- sliding a plate until it's more easily picked up, for example.
But the best thing about this enterprise is that the revolutionary method has virtually no environmental impact since the floating nature of the farms minimize interaction with the rest of the marine environment.
Researchers at Rice University have developed a method of successfully growing synthetic collagen, and their results were published in a recent issue of Nature Chemistry.