Robot Has A Taste For Guinness…Record Book
Writing by Conner Flynn on Tuesday, 18 of December , 2007 at 1:45 am
In Fact this little robot has a taste for wine. He’s what is known as a sommelier.(That’s fancy talk for a wine taster.) And that’s what got him into the 2008 Guinness World Records Book. They have recognized him as the world’s very first robot sommelier. He was developed by NEC and Atsushi Hashimoto’s team at Mie University. As far as robots go, he’s got one of the snootier jobs. You can almost feel him thinking that he’s better then you. And he is. He can accurately assess the type of wine and the ingredients by simply holding a sensor over the bottle.
This little guy is not a one trick pony either. If his divining of wine doesn’t impress you, he also has the ability to differentiate between various kinds of fruits and cheeses. Thankfully, this robot still resides in the lab, he’s not quite ready to piss off high society as a Robo-Know-It-All just yet.
[The Yomiuri Shimbun] VIA [Dvice]
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