<div dir="ltr"><div>"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.
<p>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 <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/japanese-town-sets-monster-wolf-robot-to-keep-bears-away">60 different sounds</a>,
(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."</p>
</div><div>Happy Halloween, everyone! <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/30/japanese-towns-use-this-robotic-wolf-to-scare-off-bears-and-its-terrifying/">https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/30/japanese-towns-use-this-robotic-wolf-to-scare-off-bears-and-its-terrifying/</a></div></div>