Japanese restaurant repels sushi terrorism with AI camera

Recent­ly, there is a trend in Japan called “sushi ter­ror­ism”, and many peo­ple are outraged.

On social media, videos show­ing var­i­ous unsan­i­tary acts, such as lick­ing the spoon of pow­dered green tea con­tain­ers, are circulating.

In addi­tion, a video that has been viewed more than 98 mil­lion times on Twit­ter shows a Sushi­ro branch lick­ing the top of a soy sauce bot­tle and the rim of a tea bowl before putting it back on.

The com­pa­ny has replaced all soy sauce bot­tles at affect­ed stores and cleaned all cups.

To com­bat this col­lec­tive trend, one chain, Kura Sushi, said it would use arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to look for “sus­pi­cious open­ing and clos­ing of sushi plate lids,” Nikkei Asia reported.

In ear­ly March, we plan to upgrade the exist­ing cam­eras we use to track and count the plates our cus­tomers take off the con­vey­or belt. Alert employ­ees when sus­pi­cious activ­i­ty is detected.