c/technology · by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca · 98d

Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-robot-wolf-bear-attacks-ohta-seiki-b2975670.html

‘Monster Wolf’ was originally designed to protect cropland from deer, boars and bears

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 98d (4 replies)

When will humans learn?!

20 years from now people will just be buying robot bears due to record robot wolf attacks...

We need to stop the cycle of Japanese attack robots based on animals.

WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 98d (2 replies)

Today, we, as humanity, have swallowed a fly. I don't know why we swallowed a fly. Perhaps, we'll die?

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 98d

RFK Jr was built for this mission...

Fly
Frog
?
Racoon penis (step four is always racoon penis)

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d

Perhaps, we'll die?

hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 98d

I dunno, if you're gonna go, it's certainly a damned cool way to do it...

Photonic@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 98d (3 replies)

That thing is nightmare material

Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io · 17 pts · 98d (1 reply)

I prefer the threat of a potential bear attack over the guaranteed nightmare of having this thing around all the time.

Luccus@feddit.org · 9 pts · 98d

But it's not all robot wolves!

Why is she choosing the bear over the robot wolf that makes no sense. The bear is clearly stronger!

(just in case)

DandomRude@piefed.social · 5 pts · 98d

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teft@piefed.social · 31 pts · 98d (3 replies)

This is just going to naturally select for bears that can take down a terminator. Do we really want that?

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 18 pts · 97d (1 reply)

Well, we need a defence against terminators.

ksh@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 97d

We don’t have terminators but we have replaced Bob Ross

foggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d

Or worse, bear-proof robot dogs...

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 98d (2 replies)

I just wanted to see what this thing looks like and does.

It's... Interesting.

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 97d

Oh. I thought it could walk/run, which would have been 200% scarier (and totally overkill, surely).

Turns out that in action the thing looks more like Curiosity with a creepy furby on top of it.

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d

Its a fancy scarecrow.

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 96d (2 replies)

Of course Japan decided to use robots. But why not use a big dog instead? Maybe it's a humanitarian concern since they'd be facing off with bears...

:: looks at image from article ::

Oh. It's a fucking robot yokai-cyber-demon-dog: pure nightmare fuel. They're clearly on to something here.

AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 96d

You can't just tell the Japanese to not use robots.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 96d

Yeah, I’m no expert on bear psychology… But if I were a bear and that thing came ripping across a field at me with glowing red eyes and sound effects, I probably wouldn’t return any time soon.

AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 97d

The headline flows nicely with the whole "Is this reality, or just a very stressful fever dream?" vibe that is 2026.

miellaby@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 97d (8 replies)

i'm amazed that there are still so much bears in Japan, and that they kill people on a regular basis, and that the japaneze society is ok about that.

If a single death ocurred in my country because of a single wild animal, the whole species would be eradicated by both civilians and the government working in concert. I've even heard about people in my country cutting tons of trees overnight because one motorbike smashed on one tree and "it was the trees' fault" (sic)

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 97d (1 reply)

In my country wolves have returned and within a few years people want to eradicate them because they kill sheep. Because these farmers are too stingy or too stupid to buy a kangal shepherd dog that protects the herd. Basically in my country people see nature as something that is purely there for the enjoyment of humans. Just glorified city parks. The moment they face the harsh realities of nature they want to exterminate it.

Magnum@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 96d

Sounds like Germany

FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 97d

Those bears are living in mountainous areas with forest cover. One of the causes of the bear population boom was the declining number of hunters in those areas. The Japanese government had allocated 3.4 billion yen (around 21 million US dollars) for "bear countermeasures" in 2025. They also had already deployed soldiers to put traps and allowed the police to shoot and kill bears when necessary.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 97d

wait until they hear about mosquitoes

ksh@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 97d

By that logic it’s a good idea to live in an empty clean room than on planet earth.

Gigdragon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d (1 reply)

I wish I live where you do. Here in the USA, we have an escalating boar problem and it is just ignored. But then again, it's a capitalist country.

miellaby@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 80d

Or do it the other way : Too many boars ? reintroduce apex predators

lemmysquid459@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 96d

You just made my fucking night

ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 98d

Did we learn nothing from Horizon!? Quick, someone get Aloy