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ROBOT DEVELOPS TASTE FOR HUMAN FLESH; TASTES LIKE BACON
November 9 2010
Nagoya, Japan – Every generation seems to have its battle with the future. Whether it is concerns about the power of new technologies or the changes that new industries will bring, change is something that has always been difficult for many people to 
accept. In the modern age, those fears are omnipresent in a age that knows nothing but change whether it be in technology, science, business, politics or some other realm. Naturally, those fears are coming to the forefront for many.
Ultimately, many of those fears will end up being unfounded, just as they have been throughout history, but that doesn’t mean that in the transition there won’t be a lot of problems, problems that will cause major issues for our current culture. One of the best representatives of that fear of change has been, for more than a century, robots. While robots are at work every day in our normal lives, the fear of some human-like being that could ultimately replace us either through advancements or butchery has been a common theme. Now a new experiment in Japan has brought many of those fears back to the forefront after a robot equipped with the ability to taste determined that human beings tasted like tasty, tasty bacon.
“This was a compelling experiment that adds one more level of complexity to the robot and the design of artificial life. The effort was an attempt to imbue robots with one more facet of the human experience, in this case taste and smell, that would allow them to move further into the realm that we have occupied for so long,” said one of the researchers at Mie University. “This is a valuable advance in robotics though we do admit that we experienced an unexpected result when a reporter entered his hand into the robot’s field. The robot determined that this man tasted like prosciutto which is a delicious form of bacon. We do not know why this happened as this robot has never tasted human flesh, but it is something we are investigating.”
Researchers had expected human flesh to taste like chicken.
“This is an interesting piece of technology but it always brings up many of the fears 
that people have been eliciting for a long time. Bacon is absolutely delicious and very addictive and so it is entirely possible that if a robot brain determines that human beings taste like bacon, presumably cooked bacon, then we are very much in the line of fire,” said Scrape TV Technology analyst Ken Kevins. “Presumably robots would not need nourishment in the form of food, but a lot of the time we eat things beyond our need for sustenance. There is no reason to assume that robots would eat merely to survive but rather, like us, eat for the pleasure of eating. With seven billion people on the planet, that’s a whole lot of good eating.”
The robot only stands about two feet tall, hardly a threat, but some are concerned that any robot brain will function in more or less the same way.
“One really cannot underestimate the taste of bacon and its power on the human palette. It makes sense that any creature we create would take on the appetites and values of human beings and so bacon is going to be a major part of their lives, at least robots made by non-Jewish and non-Muslim scientists,” continued Kevins. “This robot itself is not a major threat but equip it with a couple of guns and perhaps a flamethrower and we are talking about the potential for the end of the human race, exactly what everyone had been fearing all this time.”
The experimental robot had to be dismantled shortly after the experiment as officials believed it would never lose its taste for human flesh.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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