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We’re already at the point that artificial intelligence can accurately recognize faces and voices. But how about smell and taste? It seems almost impossible, Smell O Vision never really made it at the movies after all. Jokes aside, artificial intelligence recognizing pixels or sound waves is one thing, to process and identify something like smell or taste takes the perfect combination of engineering, programming, biology, and chemistry.
Palo Alto-based Aromyx might be accomplishing the seemingly impossible. Partnered with the robotics-focused venture studio Rewired and working with scientists from Stanford, they have seemingly figured how to reproduce the signals that our organs send to the brain when we smell or taste something. Called the EssenceChip™, it’s a disposable biochip which clones the 400 plus receptors from the noise and tongue. It then measures the taste and smell and gives the information in a digital readout.
As far as the process goes, a well plate is exposed to a smell or taste, the bio-assay absorbs the smell or taste molecules and activates a signal cascade exactly the same as in the human nose. To put it simply, Aromyx has put a nose and tongue on a computer chip. For an in-depth overview of how it works check out the Aromyx website.
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