Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon.
Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy below: a metal man gastronomist, ?an electromechanical sommelier?, capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d?oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses?like ?tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.?
But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot?s omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.
Absolutely horrifying. Like cows, once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated.
This article is a copy-pasta of http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie/
Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy below: a metal man gastronomist, ?an electromechanical sommelier?, capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d?oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses?like ?tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.?
But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot?s omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.
Absolutely horrifying. Like cows, once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated.
This article is a copy-pasta of http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie/
