Why mud crab
A premium animal with a difficult production problem.
Mud crab is valuable, but its biology makes controlled production unusually difficult. That makes it a strong wedge for building a new production architecture.
The production challenge
The biology drives the system design.
Aggression
Individual crabs cannot simply be treated as one uniform biomass.
Moulting
The soft-shell window changes vulnerability and handling requirements.
Water quality
Dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature and nitrogen compounds matter directly to production.
Traceability
Individual and cohort records can make production decisions more useful than a single harvest number.
Our wedge
Start with the crab. Build the system around it.
Crabionics is not trying to solve all aquaculture at once.
We are using mud crab to develop controlled habitat, sensing, actuation and production software around a difficult biological production problem.
If the architecture can make this production more repeatable, the underlying capabilities can become a platform.