• @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    283 months ago

    “$60 for a 30-minute session and $120 for an hour-long session.”

    I enjoy a good massage, but that’s double the human rate.

    • 🐍🩶🐢
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      183 months ago

      That price isn’t bad. A lot of places where I live are more expensive than that. At least you don’t have to tip the robot.

      • @FMT99@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        Give it a year or two and they’ll add a way for the robot to guilt trip you into some kind of “donation”

  • AI massage bot… Oh God.

    Is my coffee machine AI if I add a camera on it that detects movement and makes coffee if its me?

    Someone give me a blockchain cryptocurrency massage bot.

  • Ech
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    123 months ago

    When Jeanine has a spasm, though, she’s probably not going to dislocate or break something.

    • TragicNotCute
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      103 months ago

      One of my favorite parts of a massage is fully relaxing and almost just detaching from my brain and trusting that this pro touching me knows what they are doing.

      I don’t think I’d be able to relax with a robot rubbing me like that. It needs to have enough strength to do the work, which almost certainly means it can hurt me. Hard pass.

    • @Bubs
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      23 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t trust that style of robot. Unless I’m mistaken, that’s an industrial grade robot meant for things like manufacturing lines. It’s not designed to be operated on/near humans. I would bet it has enough power in its joints to kill or severely maim a person.

      Machines doing these sorts of operations on humans either need ludicrous safety measures, (like you would find on million dollar medical machinery,) or compliance engineering so that even if the machine malfunctions no harm is likely. I highly doubt their off the shelf machine has been modified in either way to make it truly safe.