W
hen Colin Angle visited Bermuda in 2015 and first saw lionfish–an invasive species that has decimated local fish populations with its ravenous appetite–it wasn’t the first time he had heard about the problem. But it was the first time that Angle, who is the cofounder of iRobot, the tech company that makes the Roomba, started to think that he might be able to help solve it.
Image: The fish, which is originally from the Indo-Pacific, has no native predators in the Atlantic. (Photo: courtesy Robots for the Environment)
