TOYKO (KGO) -- No, it's is not a leftover Halloween decoration - it's a guardian wolf robot! Some Japanese towns have now resorted to using a "robot wolf" to scare away bears that have become a ...

To address the growing issue of wild bears encroaching into their territory, the town of Takikawa in Japan has adopted an unconventional approach. The small village has widely installed robot wolves.

KISARAZU, Japan - A wolf-like robot to drive away wild animals that cause damage to agriculture has been introduced on a trial basis in Kisarazu in southwest Chiba Prefecture in Japan. According to ...

You have to hand it to the Japanese, because they sure know how to identify problems and come up with ingenious solutions to tackle them. Farmers in Japan have been constantly menaced by deer and wild ...

A town in Japan has installed several terrifying robot wolves that can move and give off blood-curdling howls in an attempt to prevent bear attacks, The Guardian reports. The town of Takikawa got two ...

KISARAZU, Japan - A wolf-like robot to drive away wild animals that cause damage to agriculture has been introduced on a trial basis in Kisarazu in southwest Chiba Prefecture in Japan.According to the ...

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- A wolf that isn't alive but still howls, growls and flashes red eyes is suddenly in the spotlight in Japan, where a jump in bear attacks has turned the mechanical creature into a ...

You might remember, in the late 90s slash early 2000s, when everyone was trying to make robot dogs happen. Starting in 1999, Sony began releasing their robot dog the “Aibo,” with new models coming out ...

Officials in the Japanese town of Takikawa saw bears roaming around and were worried about an attack. So they used a fur covered wolf scarecrow that howls when it detects motion to scare them away.