Robot Tells Reporter That Humans Taste Like Soylent Green

September 29th, 2006 Davis Posted in Uncategorized |

Thanks to TiVo I’ve seen every single Twilight Zone episode and one of my favorites is the ubber creepy episode To Serve Man. The episode features an alien race that promises to give away technology if humans will come visit them on their home planet. At the end of the episode we learn that To Serve Man is really the title of a cookbook.

It may not be as creepy as the Twilight Zone, but NEC System technology was showing off a robot that they’ve trained to analyze wine by utilizing laser beams when the jounalist interviewing the robot put his hand in front of the sensor it told him that he tasted like prosciutto and that a cameraman tasted like bacon.

I’m always up for tasting a new wine, but I’m not sure that I want to be the one to verify the accuracy on this technology. Using a robot to digitally smell wine is certainly an interesting idea though and considering that they already they have professions where people train their senses to predict a good wine, using a computer to analyze wine from a chemical perspective makes a lot of sense.