Choosing a bottle of wine is often a tough task revolving around questions such as price, grape variety and the product’s origin. Now, thanks to a sommelier robot developed by at NEC System Technologies and Mie University in Japan, help could be at hand to take the uncertainty out of the decision.

“The robot contains a wine database,” Yukie Endo of NEC System Technologies told optics.org. “The database includes various attributes such as country, winery, colour, taste and price. The robot automatically generates questions using the attributes of the database.”…

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