November 12, 2006
Rich, who has been pointing out the inexorable subjugation of the human race to our future mechanical overlords, links to a story about a new robot.
..."an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres.
The creep factor goes way up when we learn that they've given this little beastie a child-like voice to use when he identifies whatever it is that you've fed into his maw.
Then, of course, there's this:
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.
This ties in quite nicely with our NaNoWriMo '06 effort to write an anthology about Giant Evil Space Robots.
![gesr01b-sm.jpg](http://rocketjones.mu.nu/archives/images/gesr01b-sm.jpg)
Too nicely, maybe...
(as always, special thanks to Webster Colcord for permission to use his graphics)
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