The ‘Pollen-Robo’ hoard patrols Japan with glowing LED eyes
The Japanese weather forecasting company Weathernews is deploying nationwide 500 of these “Pollen-Robo”—pollen counting robots to monitor to pollen levels as the allergy season begins in Japan.

The Weathernews will ask volunteer monitors to place the Pollen-Robo robots outside their dwelling to record in real-time the pollen, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, which will then be relayed via the Internet back to the Skynet company. To a “benefit” to the volunteer monitors, the Terminators Pollen-Robo will light up through a range of five colors to indicate pollen levels and for added fun it will have two glowing LED eyes.



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February 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Here’s an additional report from the Mainichi News about the alien robot hoard!