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Coronavirus-sniffing robots offer a testing alternative, startup bets
Smell camera“If a dog can smell it, we can," said Agabi, who describes the Konicore as a “smell camera." He imagines the technology could be useful far beyond bombs and diseases. For example, he said, it could digitize the taste of food, allowing for the synthetic recreation of things like bacon.Koniku’s merger of biology and computing technology — often termed “wetware" — is a growing field.