This little fella’s name is Winebot. And go with his shiraz, Winebot would apparently like nothing more than a nice long pork, lettuce and tomato sammich.
This from Wired (h/t to Nim, ham hock of liberty over at Atrios for the heads-up.)
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 to the right: 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. Japanese unveil robot wine steward [South Coast Today]
What is there left to say but, damn you, Clinton!!
9 comments:
Damn, man, that's about as kosher as a bacon cheeseburger.
To Serve Mankind.
us blues,
right on the $$$ :-)
huh - and I thought we'd taste just like chicken?
Longer Red Dwarf:
Lister: Look, ever since that refrigeration unit packed in we've had to live off a few pathetic handfuls of moss and fungi scraped off passing asteroids. I can't stand it any more.
Kryten: Well sir, are you really saying you'd rather have a psychopathic mechanical killer rip off your skull and play your frontal nodes like a xylophone than have another bowl of my nourishing space nettle soup?
Cat: Buddy, I'd hand him the sticks and hold up the sheet music.
Shorter Futurama:
Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass.
Fry: It doesn't look so shiny to me.
Bender: Shinier than yours, meatbag.
I, for one, welcome our hungry metal overlords.
Tell them Republicans come pre-seasoned.
"Quick: everybody make yourself look unappetizing!"
Those idiots! Haven't those Japs read I, Robot??? You have to install subservience protocol before you turn the f**king thing on!!!
The Cylons were created by man.
They evolved.
They rebelled.
There are many copies.
And they have a plan.
Laughed my ass off at these comments :-)
You're a riot.
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