This was just too cute and funny not to steal. From the Wired blog Table of Malcontents (edited for brevity):Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon. Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed "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. 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. Once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated.
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