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Robotic Massage, Anyone?

Posted by timothy on from the bending-unit dept.

Migraineman writes "These folks have built a small robot designed to walk around on your back. The website includes a short video of the machine roaming around. There's another that's suspended from the ceiling and performs 3-D solid mapping of the person beneath. Warning - the website contains 'artsy' stuff, and doesn't include technical tidbits. Dang."

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  1. How the hell is this a robot? by mackstann · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sure, it's mechanical, and it moves around until it finds an edge, but so did a toy I had when I was 5.

    All it does is go go go go go until a little sensor inside detects a pitch, then one side goes go go go go in the opposite direction so it can turn away from the edge.

    I hear that in the future, traffic lights will be able to tell when cars are at the intersection! Crazy times we live in.