The human sense of taste is the result of millennia of evolution and astoundingly good at letting us enjoy both pleasant foods and beverages as well as “warning” us against ingestion of harmful substances. Man-made sensors, on the other hand, have yet to approach the ease with which humans recognize substances. This is a significant gap, as there are many substances out there that we would like to “taste” without actually putting them in our mouth. For the rapid and mobile fingerprinting of beverages and other liquids less fit for ingestion, our team at IBM Research is currently developing Hypertaste, an electronic, AI-assisted tongue that draws inspiration from the way humans taste things.
IBM Hypertaste: An AI-assisted e-tongue for fast and portable fingerprinting of complex liquids
The human sense of taste is the result of millennia of evolution and astoundingly good at letting us enjoy both pleasant foods and beverages as well as “warning” us against ingestion of harmful substances. Man-made sensors, on the other hand, have yet to approach the ease with which humans recognize substances. This is a significant gap, as there are many substances out there that we would like to “taste” without actually putting them in our mouth. For the rapid and mobile fingerprinting of beverages and other liquids less fit for ingestion, our team at IBM Research is currently developing Hypertaste, an electronic, AI-assisted tongue that draws inspiration from the way humans taste things.
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