[ExI] Japanese Towns Use This Robotic Wolf to Scare Off Bears, and It’s Terrifying

[John Grigg]

"It’s sort of like a scarecrow, except that if you happened to run into it
in the middle of the night—or, heck, even in broad daylight—it would
probably haunt your dreams (or nightmares) for years to come.

Infrared sensors detect when bears or other living creatures enter the
area, and in response the robot kicks its scare tactics into action: its
eyes light up red and it emits a variety of loud sounds, from howls to
gunshots to human voices. It reportedly can make over 60 different sounds
<https://interestingengineering.com/japanese-town-sets-monster-wolf-robot-to-keep-bears-away>,
(at least one of which is truly ear-splitting, as you can hear in the video
below) and is programmed to mix them up so that bears or other predators
won’t get used to any one sound and hence stop being scared off."
Happy Halloween, everyone!

https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/30/japanese-towns-use-this-robotic-wolf-to-scare-off-bears-and-its-terrifying/
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