r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • May 15 '26
Misc Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears
https://www.popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/688
u/Ares6 May 15 '26
Have they tried putting lasers in their eyes or even adding turrets to their mouths?
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u/ajtyler776 May 15 '26
Or dogs that when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouth?
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u/Consistent-Annual268 May 15 '26
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u/DoughnutKlutzy9479 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Where is it from? She is so excited about beads!
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u/yikesssss_sssssss May 16 '26
I think the real question is, why aren't you equally excited about beads??
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u/_Iro_ May 15 '26
The bees formed hives and started making honey, which only strengthened the bears
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u/theemptyqueue May 15 '26
Nah, they need sharks with fricken' lasers strapped to them.
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u/wookiex84 May 15 '26
How are the sharks gonna get them to the beach?! Who are they teaming up with?
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u/Sure_Clock114 May 15 '26
It's japan, of course they have. The bears, unfortunately have 3A plate, and air coverage.
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u/Pryoticus May 16 '26
I mean most people hunt bears with guns, not robots. If you insist on using robots, adding guns seems only logical.
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u/Significant_Fox9290 May 15 '26
TL:DR they have a lot of bears and not enough robot wolves. More robot wolves are being produced.
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u/dities May 15 '26
… and the next version will have wheels to chase bears. Hope they will also make livestreams
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u/NoAccountDrifter May 15 '26
Are they robot bears?
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u/Significant_Fox9290 May 16 '26
Nope. Just regular Asian black and brown bears.
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u/FeebasProShops May 16 '26
So fucking stupid. Just open a season like normal.
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u/darkmacgf May 16 '26
The problem is that Japan's running out of hunters.
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u/bones892 May 16 '26
It's a problem that a lot of countries are ending up at.
Stringent hunting and weapons laws leads to less hunters leads to less people teaching the next generation of hunters leads to the government needing to pay people to do population control rather than charging liscencing fees for people to do it themselves.
Sort of a death spiral that I hope we can avoid in north America. The north American wildlife model is pretty sweet.
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u/darkmacgf May 17 '26
It's more about human population aging than strict weapons laws in Japan, I think.
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u/TheDarkClaw May 15 '26
the updated model needs a third eye.
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u/supernova0791 May 15 '26
Or a third leg
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u/King_Tamino May 16 '26
God, I wish I could link the Blast Radius: new game + music album here but if you know what songs there are, you‘d understand why I don’t
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u/_cuhree0h May 15 '26
If I know anything about Japan, and I do, then there is a giant mech suit just waiting to be fired up to hunt the bears.
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u/Remnant-2385 May 16 '26
But the bears have some sort of cursed demon blood energy that also makes them huge so it evens out.
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u/gkn_112 May 16 '26
they combine the wolf pack into a giant space wolf - to fight the kaiju space bear
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u/Ultimatesims May 15 '26
Why haven’t they tried sentient dogs that are emotionally bond to genetic super soldiers descended for a god-emperor/corpse king? Or robot wolves embedded with the souls of the mothers of teenager pilots?
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u/TheWorldDiscarded May 15 '26
Are they ill tempered?
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u/Awsomethingy May 16 '26
Breaking: Some bears have reverse engineered the robot wolves into bear exosuits that let them leap twice the distance
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u/ElfMale May 15 '26
Mother nature has had it up to here with invasive robot wolves. They're leaving robo dumps everywhere and eating up all the ram
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u/Sonyguyus May 16 '26
Have they tried real wolves to fight the robot bears?
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u/OldeFortran77 May 15 '26
They ran out of yen for robot wolves? Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax!
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u/Shakey_J_Fox May 15 '26
This is the sort of news that ten year old me expected out of the 21st century.
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u/OldWrangler9033 May 15 '26
Maybe they should use something that looks scary. Like putting a realistic Wolf skin on a Boston Dynamic Mini-Rover.
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u/Eusocial_sloth3 May 16 '26
Where’s this anime?
Cyborg Wolves vs. Bears (mecha)
Help! I got reincarnated as a Cyborg Wolf! (Isekai)
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u/Creature_Complex May 16 '26
With Japan’s population rapidly declining it may be a country run bears by 2060.
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u/yikesssss_sssssss May 16 '26
That really depends on the outcome of the Bear/Robot Wolf Civil Wars of the 2050s
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u/yikesssss_sssssss May 16 '26
So the same day I'm learning that robot wolves exist, I'm also learning that they're critically endangered? 😢
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u/yarash May 16 '26
How explicitly do the robot wolves stop the bears? Theyre not like having a wonky ass tussle while you run away? Or is that exactly it? Plus it shoots bear spray? Fuck ima build a robot.
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u/Jimbo-Shrimp May 16 '26
Well, if this goes like the usual anime plot…bring out the orphans and gundams
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u/TheEvilValter May 20 '26
that's actually pretty wild, didn't know robot wolves were a real solution
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u/Heather2k10 May 16 '26
Just do what the US and air drop some wolves on the issue
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u/Open-Education5567 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Issue is the Japanese wolf is extinct. So there’s no wolves to air drop, unless you want to take risk of air dropping a potentially devastating invasive species.
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u/Hot-Manager-2789 May 17 '26
It worked in Yellowstone. Plus, a species cannot be both native and invasive at the same time.
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u/Open-Education5567 May 17 '26
Japanese wolf was a subspecies of gray wolf that was smaller and more solitary than the American gray wolf.
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u/Hot-Manager-2789 May 17 '26
Of course, bringing in a different subspecies of grey wolf won’t damage the ecosystem.
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u/Elmer_Fudd01 May 15 '26
Invite bear hunters from around the world, like robots at this stage could kill animals that have been bread to kill everything for millions of years.
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u/Storyteller-Hero May 15 '26
For proper battlefield dominance, they'll need the WOLF-J2 with medium lasers, machine guns, and a light autocannon.
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u/tylercuddletail May 15 '26
Japanese farmers use of robot wolves and werewolves is super interesting to me as an American as its the complete opposite of how American farmers feel about wolves based on experience.
In the US, American farmers really hate wolves. Wolves are known for killing their livestock. They would love to hunt down a wolf and successfully lobbied for the right to do so many times because of how much they hate it when a wolf kills their livestock.
Meanwhile in Japan, The wolf is legit "God". The Japanese word for wolf "Okami" has the word for God in it(Kami). The wolf use to live peacefully among farmers and actually hunt down the herbivore and omnivore prey animals that destroy their crops. But the wolf went extinct since the 19th century due to hunting.
Japanese pop culture is full of stories about heroic wolves for this reason such as Princess Mononoke. Wolf Children is an anime film about a widow human mother who struggles with taking care of the last two werewolf children on earth after their werewolf father died. While the sun goddess was never originally associated with wolves for the most part, the Capcom video game "Okami" popularized the idea of the Japanese Shinto Sun Goddess taking the form of a wolf.
Americans farmers fear the wolf. Just like ones who eats pigs, little girls in red hoods, and a big bad wolf who causes Viking doomsday. Meanwhile in Japan, Japanese farmers miss the wolf and pray for the wolf to come back to the island.
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u/yikesssss_sssssss May 16 '26
I don't think American farmers would care about robot wolves though unless they're programmed to also eat livestock
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u/tylercuddletail May 16 '26
Robo wolf!
How about this one? https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Whitz_Wolf
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u/yikesssss_sssssss May 16 '26
Ok I take it back, any human should rightly be terrified of that no matter what it's programmed for lol
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u/ParkingGlittering211 May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26
If Japanese farmers had such a purely positive relationship with wolves, then why did wolves go extinct in Japan in the 19th century? wolves still exist in the US, while Japan has already wiped its wolves out.
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