Japanese Professor Builds Humanoid Robot to Kill Wasps



Google Translate isn't doing too well, but I gather that a Japanese professor named Sekine was tired of getting stung by wasps in his laboratory. So he designed and built a mohawk-wearing fembot to climb a ladder and whack the wasps.

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What a bad translation. It's not to swat (bzzzzzzt) wasps, but to swat W.A.S.P.'s (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant's). The lab dude was tired of all the WASP's coming into his lab and inciting individual thinking and promoting creative ideas. Getting his idea for the "rad" fembot attractor from the 80's brandy bunch - he thought for sure the super sweet mohawk would be a surefire lure.
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It is to train wasps! He just hates mohawks. So the robot gets up there, pisses the wasps off, and over time the wasps develop a sting on sight mentality towards anyone with a mohawk.
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One of the Uncle Johns Bathroom Readers I just got has
an almost exact story. The guy there was mere minutes away from pulling it off. He pulled the tape away that was covering a little peep hole. Delivery guy just happened to look that way and saw his eyeball. GGGGGG

Gotta give them both an award for chutzpah if nothing else. GGGG

Some people pull similar ideas on boxes that are going to be sent by air. They don't realize the cargo holds aren't pressurized. What a horrible way to go.

Finally, I read of some guy that stowed away on an airliner in the wheel well for the nose wheel. Can't remember if he lived.
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Usually wheel well travelers don't make it, but I suppose it's possible in the way maybe one out of a hundred Golden Gate jumpers makes it.

Anyway, about the box guy: it just feels good when somebody pulls a caper, even if they're bad folks. Like the people that robbed Harry Winston's. Heists!
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