Mundane Monday.

Japan has developed these cute little robots that can taste wine, in the sense that they can identify the finger-print of the wine by sending an infra-red beam through the bottle, and not in the sense that they can consume the wine and then tell us what is what. Alright, I know that Japan has always been famous for rolling out robots of different shapes and sizes that can perform tasks that were previously thought to be limited only to humans, but doesn't it seem a little out of character for a baby-ish robot to carry out tasks like consuming alcohol (literally)? Yeah, well, along with carrying out the task that has made it famous and its creators millionairs, it also pips out some comments. Hmm ... Eliza in the making?

-| AG.