PANAJI: The Goa-headquartered National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has launched a coral monitoring autonomous underwater vehicle, Coral Reef Monitoring and Surveillance Robot, or C-bot, for long-term monitoring of coral reefs. The Coral Reef Monitoring and Surveillance Robot was launched on Sunday (X/CSIRNIOGoa) Dr N Kalaiselvi, director general of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said C-bot, which can reach depths of 200 metres, was their first step to building a capable underwater vehicle that can scan the depth of the Indian Ocean. Stay tuned for all the latest updates on Ram Mandir! Click here “We have plans to develop it further by means of which we will be able to do deep diving. So from 200 metres, we will aim for thousands of metres in the sea,” Dr Kalaiselvi told reporters at a briefing after the underwater vehicle’s launch on Sunday. “Because of climate change, coral bleaching is taking place. With different sensors, different cameras, it measures what the parameters are, and might help explain why the corals are dying the way they …