<\/p>\n Researchers at NEC System Technologies and Mie University have designed a robot that can taste \u2014 an electromechanical sommelier able to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d’oeuvres. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n […] <\/span><\/span>When a reporter’s hand was placed against the robot’s taste sensor, it was identified as prosciutto. A cameraman was mistaken for bacon. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n So, faced with robots being able to identify us as temptingly tasty food, what do we humans do? Start giving them machine guns<\/a>. <\/p>\n South Korea on Thursday unveiled an armed guard robot that it says can be used to detect and suppress intruders along the heavily fortified border between South and North Korea. <\/p>\n The Commerce Ministry said the robot, which can fire a machine gun or rubber bullets and sound an alarm when it detects suspicious movement, could dramatically improve surveillance capability. <\/p>\n The robot also can distinguish people from moving objects such as a vehicles from up to 1.2 miles away in the daytime, and half that distance at night, the ministry said in a news release. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Jeez … it’s like a bad science fiction movie. Or an episode of The Simpsons<\/em>. At least the bacon-loving, machine gun-toting robots will start eating humanity over in Asia first … <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (via collision<\/a> detection<\/a>) <\/p>\n <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re all doomed, doomed, I tell you. 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