Amazing, Japanese Farmers Using Robot Wolves to Maintain Rice Fields
Hello everyone..Japanese farmers use robotic wolves with spooky faces, equipped with bright red LED lights to frighten wild boars, deer and other pests from grazing on the rice and chestnut plants in the country. 'Super Monster Wolf', has a height of 50 cm, 65 cm and operates with a battery that can be charged using solar energy. Quoted Independent on Saturday, robots use motion sensors to detect when other mammals approach and roar to respond to wild boar or deer.
Super Monster Wolf can travel for up to half a mile and has been used to patrol near the town of Kisarazu, Chiba, as a barrier to pests. This robot is quite effective to replace the role of scarecrow. In addition to the devil-like gaze, the creature has a clear hidden fur and a growling rubber jaw. Chikao Umezawa of the Japan Agricultural Cooperative said he has seen a significant drop in the number of plants that animals have eaten since the animals were released.
The robot will enter the stage of mass production and will soon be commercially available, retailing for 514,000 yen. Tragically, wolves were extinct in Japan in the early nineteenth century, but now needed. Companies such as Boston Dynamics and Festo in Germany, have led the development of robotic animals, with animatronic snakes, butterflies, penguins and horses developed using artificial intelligence.
AI represents an interesting proposition for the future of agriculture, with robot bees robot used to pollinate flowers into the last idea that should be quite entertaining.