Driving through a road construction zone usually involves obeying flashing signs or traffic signals.  Japan has another answer to moving motorists through a road construction zone –battery powered robots.
Called Anzen Taro, which roughly translates to ‘Safety Sam’, the dead-eyed entities range from electronic cartoons to crude scarecrows and disembodied torsos and are used to control traffic around government-funded construction sites in Japan. Their complexity varies from a simple metal plate to clothed
      
  
           
                          
                January 29, 2014
              
            
                          
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                Driving through a road construction zone usually involves obeying flashing signs or traffic signals.  Japan has another answer to moving motorists through a road construction zone –battery powered robots.
 
Called Anzen Taro, which roughly translates to ‘Safety Sam’, the dead-eyed entities range from electronic cartoons to crude scarecrows and disembodied torsos and are used to control traffic around government-funded construction sites in Japan. Their complexity varies from a simple metal plate to clothed mannequins, all with a robotic arm to direct traffic.
 
      
    Called Anzen Taro, which roughly translates to ‘Safety Sam’, the dead-eyed entities range from electronic cartoons to crude scarecrows and disembodied torsos and are used to control traffic around government-funded construction sites in Japan. Their complexity varies from a simple metal plate to clothed mannequins, all with a robotic arm to direct traffic.
 
     
         
         
         
        



