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"There are all kinds of robots out there doing many different things," said Hideo Shimazu, director of the NEC System Technology Research Laboratory and a joint-leader of the robot project. "But we decided to focus on wine because that seemed like a real challenge."
"Wines are notoriously similar in their spectral fingerprints," Shimazu said. "The variation this robot detects is very subtle." "Buying one of these would cost about as much as a new car," Shimazu said. "We'd like to bring that down to 100,000 yen ($1,000 US) or less for the tasting sensor if we were to put it on the market."See the full content of this document
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Japanese Winebots Partial to Chardonnay
Researchers design electromechanical sommelier
By Eric TalmadgeTSU, Japan -- The ability to discern good wine from bad, name the specific brand from a tiny sip and recommend a complementar...See the full content of this document
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