Does Bender know about this? Those engineers over at NEC, always looking for a way to keep their perpetual R&D darling, the PaPeRo, in the limelight, have now tasked the hapless little Weeble with wine-tasting. Seriously. Hot on the heels of PaPeRo being turned into a health advisor and cheese snob (it can analyze food and determine its fat and sugar content and identify different types of cheeses), it can now perform a similar hat trick on wines. It does this using the same tech it used on food: infrared spectral analysis, measuring the degree of light absorption in different wavelengths and comparing that to its database. But it’s harder to do this with wine than with food, as the absorption signatures are similar to each other. Okay. Cool. Interesting. But what does this have to do with a small personal home robot that you’ve been promising consumers for almost six years now?
[Via Gizmag]