/ Larval Content for ��ɫ��Ƶ en /news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea <p>Scientists from the University of California, Davis, are deploying “robot larvae” into the ocean at Bodega Bay, just north of San Francisco.</p> <p>These robots mimic clouds of microscopic marine larvae, such as baby crabs, mussels, clams and rockfish. The data the bots bring back provide some of the first direct confirmation of a decades-old and surprisingly contentious scientific mystery: Where do marine larvae go, how do they get there and back, and what allows them to do this?</p> August 31, 2016 - 4:30pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea