This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
You can't just tell the Japanese to not use robots.
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.
The headline flows nicely with the whole "Is this reality, or just a very stressful fever dream?" vibe that is 2026.
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)
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.
You just made my fucking night
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.
wait until they hear about mosquitoes
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.
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.
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Today, we, as humanity, have swallowed a fly. I don't know why we swallowed a fly. Perhaps, we'll die?
RFK Jr was built for this mission...
Fly
Frog
?
Racoon penis (step four is always racoon penis)
Perhaps, we'll die?
I dunno, if you're gonna go, it's certainly a damned cool way to do it...
That thing is nightmare material
I prefer the threat of a potential bear attack over the guaranteed nightmare of having this thing around all the time.
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!
Have you ever seen the presentations by Boston Dynamics and the like? The biggest contracts for just about every robotics company probably come from the military. It probably won’t be long before war looks like it does in Terminator 2 - let’s just hope Skynet takes a while to show up, given all the AI stuff governments are already using for their military campaigns...
This is just going to naturally select for bears that can take down a terminator. Do we really want that?
Well, we need a defence against terminators.
We don’t have terminators but we have replaced Bob Ross
Or worse, bear-proof robot dogs...
I just wanted to see what this thing looks like and does.
It's... Interesting.
Its a fancy scarecrow.
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.
The Toddler Terrorizer 1000 sold out, eh?
Video unrelated.
Did we learn nothing from Horizon!? Quick, someone get Aloy
When your mate is like "who's my pretty little girl?" and giving their dog mouth kisses
bear is friend!
Bear us very friend
Bear with me on that one
Good lord!!
