Inventor creates robot to scare and electrocute bears

A Turkish inventor has created an ingenious and terrifying robot designed to frighten and electrocute bears.

With its tin hat, thick black beard and piercing red eyes, the robot man works by shocking anything that crosses its path with 25,000 volts of electricity.

The hideous pale-faced creation is attached to a wooden platform with wheels and travels in circles while making random jerking movements with its arms and head.

Inventor, Mustafa Karasungur, 46, told the Doğan News Agency his creation can also be used "as a mobile power supply", which is handy if you need to charge your phone between bear attacks.

"It can light a lamp for four hours," the inventor who has been tinkering with electronics over the past 30 years said.

Mr Karasungur's hopes of mass producing the robot may not come to fruition. There are fears the robot could attack and electrocute innocent passers-by because it is unable to tell the difference between animals and humans.