Sushi pranks push restaurants to fight back with AI

Top conveyor belt maker partners with security company on spotting troublemakers

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Sushi restaurants are looking to reassure customers disturbed by problem behavior. (Photo by Atsushi Ooka)

TAKUMI SASAKI, Nikkei staff writer

KANAZAWA, Japan -- Japan's leading maker of sushi conveyor belts has teamed up with a security camera company to use artificial intelligence against unsanitary pranks that have shocked the restaurant industry.

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