Wakamaru's latest job: guarding your kids

We kind of thought the first remedial school jobs to be phased out by robots would be ridding those clueless nerds of their annoying positions of power as hall monitors, but Wakamaru is stepping right up to premises security guard. Deathly threatening as ever, the bright yellow plastic robot will be standing sentry at a primary school in Tokyo, monitoring students movement and demanding IC-chip based identification. No ID? Watch out, because Wakamaru will take a picture of you and totally tell a teacher (literally, all the Wakamaru can do is ring the administration to come help if it thinks something unsavory's going down).

[Via dottocomu]

[Michael @ Feb 7th 2006 10:58AM]

"literally, all the Wakamaru can do is ring the administration to come help if it thinks something unsavory's going down"
Which is about all the hall monitor does now...

[Ben @ Feb 7th 2006 11:29AM]

Wow the days of sneaking around the hall monitor are getting slowly numbered.

Although it would be neat if it had freaken lasers.

[Jonathan Emmerling @ Feb 7th 2006 2:26PM]

wow. the kids will have so much fun smashing that thing to bits.

[William @ Feb 7th 2006 3:30PM]

Can we beat it up? It can't fight back ...
*evil chuckle*

http://www.gorobotics.net

[Da King @ Feb 7th 2006 6:17PM]

Wow. This thing wouldnt last fifteen seconds in my old school. It would be stripped down and the kids would just knock it over and keep walking...

now, if it had the power to fight back or actually do something, the smart kids would just hack into it and use it to beat up the techers that dared give them an A-.

[pcchris @ Feb 7th 2006 9:34PM]

kids at my school would be trying to install drop screens and box speakers in it and some modded gaming console

[joel @ Sep 12th 2006 9:51AM]

aneak up behind it and put gum over the eyes/camera