Now even Waldo is subject to surveillance from artificially intelligent robots.“There’s Waldo,” a robotic arm built by creative agency redpepper, serves one purpose: To find and point at that elusive cartoon-man of mystery.Using a Raspberry Pi-controlled arm outfitted with a Vision Camera Kit designed for facial recognition, the Waldo-hunting bot searches for matches of our boy and then sends what it finds back to Google’s AutoML Vision service, which they’ve trained for Waldo-specific purposes. According to redpepper, it finds Waldo within 4.45 seconds.Matt Reed, creative technologist at redpepper, told the Verge that he collected the Waldo images to train the AI from a Google image search, and ended up using 62 Waldo heads and 45 Waldos with his head on his body.“I thought that wouldn’t be enough data to build a strong model but it gives surprisingly good predictions on Waldos that weren’t in the original training set,” Reed said.There’s Waldo is a one-stop shop for, well, finding Waldo, but it’s a great demonstration of what machine vision can do—and perhaps a much, much simpler version of how systems like Facebook and government surveillance facial recognition softwares spot individuals in a crowd. It’s a lot easier for them to find you if you wear the same red-striped shirt every day, though.