Okay so maybe the cute looking little green robot isn’t the Terminator but according to Eric Talmadge; an Associated Press writer, when the little robot isn’t tasting wine it’s deciding what humans taste like. The robot developed by researchers at NEC Systems Technologies to be able to taste and identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d’oeuvres.

As popular as this little wine steward might be on the jetsetting circle the interesting result of this bot’s tasting was when it came to humans. Like when a reporters hand was placed in front of the very expensive left arm which contains the sniffing infrared spectrometer

When a reporter’s hand was placed against the robot’s taste sensor, it was identified as prosciutto. A cameraman was mistaken for bacon.

Lucky for us humans there are no real plans to market the little guy, so we’re safe from being served up for some robot banquet breakfast for a while to come.

[hat tip to Billy and Collision Detection]

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be back for the second half of its second season, after being renewed by Fox.

The show debuted in January to strong ratings, but was under threat after lower ratings for its second season, which debuted in early September.

Fox has ordered 9 more episodes to be shown in the first half of next year on the basis that Fox shows do better while American Idol is on air, and the network believes it can grow the shows audience, according to Reuters.

The spin-off from the Terminator movie series has a die-hard following among some sci-fi fans.

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