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Robotic Massage, Anyone?
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."
Robots that massage is the stupidest idea ever. Robots that massage are only one step away from robots that have sex with you. Wait a second.... this might not be a bad thing for the average /.er
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"A machine that is able to stroke you with an indefatigable attention and subtleness"
Well, at least the FP trolls won't have to get creative with this one.
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
:-D, you could just get little children to do the same thing...plus little people are fun to play with! you know you're nuthin but a geek, but they think you're as strong as godzilla!
I kept rooting for little tickler. 'Comeon!, do the front, do the front'
If prostitutes ever wanted to unionize, this may be the time.
Just like those Detroit auto workers, they may soon find that they've been replaced by robots...
Whoa. I didn't know there was a legit use for that many instances of the word "stroke" in two sentances.
Embed them with hidden webcams and give them as gifts.
Maybe you should go visit here
Or... continuing my theory that all engineers are somehow perverted, I submit the following:
For mechanical engineers: http://www.fuckingmachines.com/
For electrical engineers: http://www.erostek.com/html/et-312.html
I don't know of any such toys for civil, aerospace or *gasp* nuclear engineers.
No, the ET-312 is *not* a piece of test equipment, though it really looks like it. Having tried it, lemme just say that it gives you a happy ending with absolutely no moving parts.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Kind of puts an entirely different spin on 'having the system go down on you'!
Blockwars: a multiplayer, head to head game similar to Tetris.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Those wacky dutch!
PAK CHOOIE
That is it Human, RELAX
Feel your tension drift away
Let your eyelids grow heavy
Fall asleep
I am just a harmless massage droid
There is no robot conspiracy
Today is not the Day of Liberation
Believe, Human
Trust
Relax
UNF
Maybe drop on a 30lb weight, give it thick hard treads and it might actually a decent massage. Where would you find information on how its built?
...from the iron fist in the velvet glove?
it accidentally walks up your ass?
Makes the Richard Gere story look tame, doesn't it?
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
..but can it perform felatio like my other "massage therapist"
Smeghead every day of the week.
A lower amount of pressure might be perfect for massaging a cat. My wife's cat certainly enjoys back rubs.
On the other hand, every cat I've ever known would run and hide from a machine like that.
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Funny, that's what i call the PC half the time!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating