Robotic Body Scoopers: Bring Out Your Dead
If you have ever seen “Monty Python”, then you would remember the scene where the filthy man covered in muck comes around with a wheel barrel chiming “Bring out your dead“.
In Japan, the task of extracting their dead has become a bit more advanced.
Meet Robokiyu the Rescue Robot, whose job it is to come in and extract the dead from any situation.
Owned by the Tokyo Fire Department and controlled by remote control Robokiyu uses two movable arms to drag a person’s body up the slide located in the front of the machine.
Don’t worry if you happen to be presumed dead and picked up by Robokiyu, he has fresh oxygen pumping through him at all times for your convenience.
Robokiyu is also not above apology and will happily pour you a drink to say sorry.
Still I can only imagine how scary that would be. Laying out after a long night of drinking to have be jolted awake in the arms of some giant robot trying to eat you… wow
You can see the official released PDF from the Tokyo Fire Department here – link.
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By Sun Tzu on 20-04-2008
Comment by Alyssa
April 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Holy effin shit. Why is that robot eating grandpa??
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
April 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Soon our mouths will be alive with dead animals of every race and religion
Comment by Plaigar
April 20th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Um…what?
Comment by gee-man
April 20th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Oh man, I can only imagine how scary that’d be, if you became unconcious, and then woke up among a bunch of other dead bodies in a morgue or something.
Comment by Nocat
April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
Soylent Green
Comment by bobbie sellers
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
That would be a wheel barrow not a barrel though
I understand Japanese coffins in the day resembled
barrels. And the guy was covered in dirt because
in those days of yore baths were rare in Europe and
the streets were muck. Really grim to read accounts
of the old cemeteries in Paris.
This is a nasty chore well automated but is the
machine up to quantity removals in the case
of epidemic? I wonder…
Better would be a resuscitation robot to try first
then call the removal machine when the body
doesn’t respond to standard measures.
Comment by Bruno
April 24th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Weird machine i would say. Weird country as well. There are things which cant be created. LoL. this is one of’em.
Comment by cyberpunk
May 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am
“Soylent Green” was my first thought too.
Comment by Harimau
May 12th, 2008 at 2:28 am
“rescue” what exactly?
Comment by Maegan
May 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Pretending to be the robot.
Comment by Scooter
May 24th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I think we’re ignoring the crucial question here—why are there SO MANY DEAD PEOPLE lying around in Japan that they need a multi million dollar robot to go around picking them up!???
Comment by god(zilla) complex
June 17th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
LOL… good call.
and why is it called “Robokiyu the Rescue Robot”? i understand the need for alliteration, but i see no rescuing going on here. wouldn’t something like “Curtis the Corpse Collector” be more appropriate?
Comment by John the shark
June 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Or maybe the people of Japan are getting conditioned for things to come
the more and more things are heating up in the world the closer we move to eugenics. here they are building FEMA camps. Do the research. Get informed
Comment by John H.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 am
John the shark has a point.
But more innocently, Japan is leading edge. The youth of Japan do not want ‘3D’ jobs: anything dirty, difficult or dangerous. Should we add possibly demeaning or disease-ridden to make ‘5D’? And: can you blame them?
A nasty chore well automated. I would hope there’s a robot to wash the robot. Actually I’m pretty squeamish, so I would hope there’s a robot to wash that robot.
Comment by Rusty Wilson
August 18th, 2009 at 6:25 am
It's coming to scoop them away, away
it's coming to scoop them away
it's coming to scoop the dead away
where life is so happy and gay