Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

10 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. haha robots that massage by chadamir · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    --
    NJ Local Music Scene
    1. Re:haha robots that massage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Maybe you should go visit here

    2. Re:haha robots that massage by meldon+corintur · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd rather have a robot that will do my taxes and sit at the computer for me. Then I wouldn't need a massage.

  2. Massage... by mrjive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like it wouldn't be heavy enough to do anything besides mildly tickle you. (A good massage usually involves a fair amount of pressure).

    I guess that's why they call it "The Tickler"

    --
    If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
  3. Robotic Message by purduephotog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At least thats what I read when I saw the subject line. Then I tried to figure out what the hell this has to do with robots walking on you....

    I've actually seen a hydro chamber- it's got two sheets of really thick plastic- you lie in between them, and programmed jets move over your body, recycling water. It's very very good... just not yet affordable :(

  4. Robotic Stroking by anderiv · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quoting the page:


    A machine that is able to stroke you with an indefatigable attention and subtleness. Automated stroking is an exciting topic, because it brings together our interests in meta creativity, biology and artificial intelligence, and of course the pleasure of being stroked.


    Whoa. I didn't know there was a legit use for that many instances of the word "stroke" in two sentances.
  5. Sexually Deviant Engineers by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  6. The System Is Down by Myriad · · Score: 5, Funny
    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...

    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'
  7. Re:human power rawr! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    haha...what are you, a catholic priest?

  8. Yes.. by deadgoon42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..but can it perform felatio like my other "massage therapist"

    --

    Smeghead every day of the week.