{"id":796896,"date":"2026-05-14T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796896\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:33:16","slug":"japanese-bear-fightin-robo-wolves-are-pure-unleaded-nightmare-fuel-but-theyre-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796896\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese bear-fightin’ robo-wolves are pure unleaded nightmare fuel but they’re working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are so many things happening around the world, it’s really tough to stay up to speed on everything. However, one thing that I can’t believe isn’t talked about more is the problem Japan is having with bear attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, it has gotten so bad that they’ve turned to robotic wolves to deal with it.<\/p>\n

Killer Bears vs. Robo-Wolves? Hands off, everybody. I’m writing the screenplay for what is sure to be a Syfy channel movie channel movie if it isn’t already.<\/p>\n

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A signing warning people that there are bears in the area. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

Bear encounters are on the rise in Japan, with 200 injuries and 13 fatalities reported just since the start of 2025. It’s gotten so bad that, according to Popular Science<\/a>, they even had to deploy the military to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n

JAPAN DEPLOYS MILITARY AFTER RECORD BEAR ATTACKS ACROSS COUNTRY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps someone was watching “Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla” and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and thought, “Hey, let’s throw some robots<\/a> at this problem.”<\/p>\n

They did, and it has proven to be the secret weapon. Monster Wolf, a $4,000 robot with sensors and sound effects designed to scare away bears, deer and, really, by the looks of it, anything else it wants to.<\/p>\n

Because it might be the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Did… did they have to go that hard?<\/p>\n

I think you can scare most animals by hitting a tree trunk with a stick; you don’t need a robotic version of one of the heads of Cerberus.<\/p>\n

I mean, yeah, no one seems to know what to do when a bear attacks. Some people say you roll up in a ball, others say you make yourself big. Some say you stay quiet, while others say you blast an air horn in its face.<\/p>\n

ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Monster Wolf has been around since 2016, but has recently turned into a tool to ward off bears, and can you blame the bears for not wanting to be anywhere near that thing? (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman\/NUR Photo)<\/p>\n

So, after centuries \u2014 maybe millennia \u2014 of not knowing what to do when a bear goes all Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant” on youThe Revenant on you, it turns out the answer was simple: robot wolves.<\/p>\n

Terrifying robot wolves that we’ll all see in our sleep tonight.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I mean, imagine going on a hike and running into that. You’d wish you were getting mauled by a bear.<\/p>\n

But there’s one problem. They seem to be working, and because each Monster Wolf is custom-made, they’re having trouble keeping up with demand.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are so many things happening around the world, it’s really tough to stay up to speed on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[170,305907,753,159,158,117103,67,132,68,1581,837],"class_list":["post-796896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-japan","tag-outkick-culture","tag-robots","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-terror","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wild-nature","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116575548467825298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}