Japanese town deploys growling robot ‘wolves’ to protect residents from bears
Story Date: 11/20/2020

 

Source: GOOD NEWS NETWORK, 11/17/20


Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? Japanese black bears, it seems—or at least they’re afraid of big, bad robotic wolves. With bear sightings at a five-year high and dozens of attacks reported in Japan this year alone, city officials in the town of Takikawa on the island of Hokkaido took action by buying and installing a pair of Monster Wolf robots in their community. The animatronic scare-wolves were developed through a cooperative project between...

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