Re-enforcing their alignment with our future robot rulers, the Japanese have enlisted a team of 200 robots to hang around, staring ominously at passers-by all while warning and reporting on a huge lifestyle concern for its citizens: pollen.
Taken from Pink Tentacle : “As hay fever season approaches, Tokyo-based weather forecasting company Weathernews, Inc. is deploying a 200-strong army of beady-eyed, ball-shaped robots nationwide to monitor the pollen situation.”

There is something very anime about these little white guys with thier eyes and bodyless heads....