Japanese scientists have developed a robotic wine taster, which they claim can correctly identify the unique organic components of 30 popular wines within 30 seconds, reports the Indo Asian News Service, quoting the online edition of New Scientist.

Engineers from the NEC System Technologies lab and Mie University, both in Japan, developed the robot called Wine-bot. It is about twice the size of a three-litre wine box and consists of a microcomputer and an optical sensing instrument.

Currently, fraud detection is performed through human tasting and careful analysis of a vineyard's records. Retailers and customs officials have been looking for a machine that could identify wine fraud, speed up detection processes and reduce costs.

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