Although it may look like a nefarious machine with a taste for human flesh, this robot is actually here to help.
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Operated by the Tokyo Fire Department (TFD), the machine is designed to extract disaster victims from areas too hazardous for human rescue workers. The robot uses pincer-like hands to lift victims onto a built-in conveyor belt that pulls them inside until they reach safety.
The remote-controlled device appears to be a compact version of TFD's Robo-Q rescue robot, which is also equipped with cameras and sensors that enable it to see through smoke and measure environmental conditions such as concentrations of combustible gas.
MiNGLED
If it's so safe, why are they using a dummy to demonstrate it? Is it because they don't want it to get the taste of human flesh?
[]GK
Is this the brother to that corpse collecting robot they have over there too?
[]Timothy
That was horribly scary
[]Ajayesh
What are they trying to prove???
[]langyaw
"What are they trying to prove???"
[]that machines *do* eat people.