Artificial Intelligence project to aid Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers

Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers still rely on technologies their great-great-grandparents invented, including dropping a bamboo pole to the seabed to feel for good locations to seed young oysters, often called “spat.“ But a project underway at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering aims to change that with the aid of artificial intelligence, or AI. The final product …