Friday, November 10, 2006

Well this can't be good.



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:

Anonymous said...

Damn, man, that's about as kosher as a bacon cheeseburger.

Anonymous said...

To Serve Mankind.

driftglass said...

us blues,
right on the $$$ :-)

skunqesh said...

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.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I, for one, welcome our hungry metal overlords.

Tell them Republicans come pre-seasoned.

Anonymous said...

"Quick: everybody make yourself look unappetizing!"

BitterHarvest said...

Those idiots! Haven't those Japs read I, Robot??? You have to install subservience protocol before you turn the f**king thing on!!!

cieran said...

The Cylons were created by man.
They evolved.
They rebelled.
There are many copies.
And they have a plan.

driftglass said...

Laughed my ass off at these comments :-)
You're a riot.