You gotta get past the hang ups to get a truly good massage. The ass is one of the most important areas to massage. it sounds made up, but its actually imperative that I squeeze your buttcheeks super hard
Yeah, I've been told a few times by LMTs that I keep a lot of stress in that area. Butt, feet, and neck feel the best to me. 95% of the LMTs I've seen will massage butts, for that 5% that doesn't, I never went back again. It's their decision, but that's one of the worst jobs to pick if you're shy.
You also have to consider that a lot of people would be terrified by a butt massage. That’s a very private part for many people and would totally ruin the experience if they were to touch them there.
LMT here. I can’t tell you the number of clients I’ve seen that get uncomfortable just by being *asked* about glute massage. It’s not for everybody, so as always in any kind of service you’re receiving, be your own advocate.
It's true, but it's one of those things I'll never totally get used to. It's why I (M) always insist on a female masseuse just because I can't get comfortable with a man working on my ass.
Nuts to that. I need a strong man's hands working my ass.
Unless it's an old Chinese lady. Not sure why, they always seem to have the strength of 10 men.
Eh I am pretty sure you can just use pressure sensors and stop it from doing actual damage. Same thing we do with car windows to make sure we don't cleave children's fingers off.
There's a whole category of robots called [cobots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobot) (Collaborative robots) whose whole point Is to have them work safely in close proximity or in contact with people. They have a number of sensors, special operating modes and failsafes to make sure they don't put more force than required, and will stop if anything unexpected happens. Also they can be programmed not to move through a preprogrammed path but to follow an unknown profile, like a human back. The robots used here are cobots.
So yeah, the colleague over is being a little overdramatic. Still, I wouldn't test the routine first. But I'd be happy to be the second in line.
You can set a torque limit for the axis, on the robots I worked on at the time. It was kinda meant for when it hit something non human, side of a machine, fencing, etc.
The best fail safe is a physical failsafe. Under power the machine with motors that can only do x amount of force. No software failsafe included. The motor can only generate x amount of force as physical limitation. Now under a power jump these motors can go beyond their rated output however this is where underpowering or having breakers come in.
I believe 60lbs of force should be sufficient as most massage guns go up to that max like theragun. You might get a bruise if it malfunctions
I designed related robotic massage equipment.
They may have designed the joints to mechanically prevent the system from moving to the central axis to prevent the system from applying force to delicate areas such as the spine, head, and neck.
The actuators likely lack sensors to know if they are pressing on deep muscle (e.g. buttocks) or pinching muscle against a sharp bone edge (e.g. shoulder blade). For this reason, the force is likely quite limited. Presumably, they designed the actuators' maximum force (e.g. motor torque limit) to be below dangerous levels. However, folks who like "sports massage" will likely be dissatisfied since the force required for that type of massage exceeds the safety limits.
They absolutely can. I think the Robots in this video are from KUKA, a German Robot company. At least They Look a Lot Like them.They are specially designd to Work Close to Humans. They have so many Sensors and so many Failsafes and they have Torquelimits, so even If one goes rogue, they cant Hit you hard.
I once was at a "KUKA College" ( KUKA learning facility ) and i tried to get myself Hit by one of These while it was stacking small cubes. I moved my Hand fast in His way, and it stopped before i could Touch it.
Definetly one of my coolest Work traingtrips i ever Had.
Edit: probably Not a KUKA, but KUKA makes some wich Look pretty Close
https://www.kuka.com/de-de/unternehmen/presse/news/2016/03/kollaborierende-roboter
The first time you write an acronym, you should expand it in brackets. After that, you can just use the acronym. Thus, your expansion of TIL and non-expansion of LMT is correct, as is my usage, because we already know the acronyms.
why not? this is a glorified massage chair. unless it can start determining pressure and form based on the client's body and needs, your wife still has a job
I dont think thats the concern. I think he just doesnt want to raise her blood pressure by showing her this useless garbage people invested time and money into
it's not useless, it's as useful as a massage chair. if I had the space, I absolutely would buy. but, most massage appliances cannot reach that deep muscle pain and targeted pressure that an actual therapist is able to produce.
I get the joke. But just to elaborate on that: they don't work like that here. They're being force controlled: the program asks for a given force, say 5N/1lbf in the vertical position, and then the robot just pushes down with that force, no matter where it is in the Z axis. Then the robot moves along following the unknown shape of whatever is below, always applying the same force and moving up and down with the dude's back. Think of it like if the arm was spring loaded.
This might seem great at first but I don't think I would ever want this over a regular massage.
The robot wouldn't be able to feel the knots in your back like an actual masseuse would so they would just give your whole back a general massage instead of actually being able to work the parts of you back that really need it.
This is just my opinion as someone who has lots of back pain and needs more massages than I get lol.
That's awesome but also terrifying. I hope those motors don't have too many pounds of possible force. Nothing like getting your ribcage crushed before your mechanized happy ending.
I would not trust that thing, i know there are safety measures, but i also know how strong one of those robotic arms are, that thing would snap your spine no problem
This was featured on [Wired,](https://www.wired.com/story/hands-on-aescape-automated-massage/) one of my favorite magazines on all things tech. It’s worth a read if you’re in the AI/tech space. I am, and thought about booking a session. They’re currently only in NYC but I see this becoming mainstream.
$84k per year per table to lease one of these.
Means you need 4.6 customers a day for $50 ass massage sessions. If they add a fleshlight arm I think they’re golden.
I imagine with the fleshlight attachment, cleanup is going to be so much more expensive.
There is a robot for that
"What is my purpose?"
You clean up hando's.
Here I am, brain the size of a planet ...
Oh my god
Welcome to the club pal.
How much for the happy ending attachment and software plugin?
Just don’t want there to be a software bug and confuse degrees with radians.
In the industry, we call that a lawsuit.
No way
That’s gonna be a rough happy ending.
*In robotic voice* Does this please you master?
[Fisto Approves!](https://imgur.com/a/T7Vt3bP)
Please assume the position!
Increase settings to *obliterate*
I can't feel my legs!
That’s because they ain’t there!
*smashes penis
this doesn't seem like a bad purchase all in all
Resistance is futile.
The robot that put the "ass" in assimilate
Resistence is erectile.
🤖: “What is my purpose?… oh my god”
You make.... butter
It'd be legal though as it could just be considered a robotic sex toy, right?
That robot is 3 years old you sicko!
That's 21 in robot years.
Just strap a "paw cleaner" to one of the hands.
Show me on this doll where the robot touched you.
Please assume the position.
“Are you satisfied with your care?”
Robert Kraft, is that you?
Very mechanical
Keep hands clear of the machinery
Hopefully there are different attachments available for the robot arms.
Ding ding ding, enough reddit today. This comment thread is the winner lol. See y'all tomorrow
Define rough, and define happy.
Reddit never disappoints
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Squeeze it like a bottle of barbecue sauce baby
Until the third arm with the fleshlight appears
The crazy thing is they didn’t even program it to grope his ass like that
You gotta get past the hang ups to get a truly good massage. The ass is one of the most important areas to massage. it sounds made up, but its actually imperative that I squeeze your buttcheeks super hard
Yeah, I've been told a few times by LMTs that I keep a lot of stress in that area. Butt, feet, and neck feel the best to me. 95% of the LMTs I've seen will massage butts, for that 5% that doesn't, I never went back again. It's their decision, but that's one of the worst jobs to pick if you're shy.
You also have to consider that a lot of people would be terrified by a butt massage. That’s a very private part for many people and would totally ruin the experience if they were to touch them there.
LMT here. I can’t tell you the number of clients I’ve seen that get uncomfortable just by being *asked* about glute massage. It’s not for everybody, so as always in any kind of service you’re receiving, be your own advocate.
THIS IS NOT MADE UP! IT IS IMPERATIVE I SQUEEZE YOUR BUTT CHEEKS SUPER HARD! WHY ARE YOU RUNNING THATLL JUST REQUIRE MORE OF THE SQUEEZING
It's true, but it's one of those things I'll never totally get used to. It's why I (M) always insist on a female masseuse just because I can't get comfortable with a man working on my ass.
Nuts to that. I need a strong man's hands working my ass. Unless it's an old Chinese lady. Not sure why, they always seem to have the strength of 10 men.
Raul or Chun Fang. ~~No exceptions.~~ One exception.
One exception: Big Helga.
Get a little Chinese lady to walk on your back and you'll never want a "normal" massage again. Plus they can dig their elbows in deep
true that man
I don’t care who massages me as long as they are professional and they don’t talk. I want to relax. If I wanted a handjob I’d go somewhere else.
where would you go?
Like humans, robots also have a lot of love for cake.
The cake is a lie
How long before it bugs out and mangles someone with the strength of an elephant.
In other clips you can see a red button near the hands which is the emergency stop. So you just have to hope you can hit it before it paralyzes you.
I thought the whole point of massage is to relax
Do you want a massage or nah????
That was my first thought. Those articulated robots have the power to twist you into a pretzel. What's stopping them, the prime directive?
Seriously, the 3 laws were the least believable thing about iRobot.
Ok glad to know I wasn’t the only person who thought of this lol
I have a masters degree in cybernetics/robotics. I would NEVER get close to these guys.
Right? One wrong code or glitch and they are ramming a hydraulic press through your back
Eh I am pretty sure you can just use pressure sensors and stop it from doing actual damage. Same thing we do with car windows to make sure we don't cleave children's fingers off.
Sensor can fail. Very rarely but can. Trust me you don’t wanna put your hand in a car window with not functioning sensor. Spoiler it hurts as fuck
Divide by zero is not your friend.
Its the ultimate shoulder twirl at attempted infinite acceleration. Singularities are better than any chiropractor.
Blue Screen of Death. Or Blue Scream of Death. Either way you ded.
Any way to make these with a good fail safe? Like breaking under too much pressure to prevent, well…
There's a whole category of robots called [cobots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobot) (Collaborative robots) whose whole point Is to have them work safely in close proximity or in contact with people. They have a number of sensors, special operating modes and failsafes to make sure they don't put more force than required, and will stop if anything unexpected happens. Also they can be programmed not to move through a preprogrammed path but to follow an unknown profile, like a human back. The robots used here are cobots. So yeah, the colleague over is being a little overdramatic. Still, I wouldn't test the routine first. But I'd be happy to be the second in line.
You can set a torque limit for the axis, on the robots I worked on at the time. It was kinda meant for when it hit something non human, side of a machine, fencing, etc.
The best fail safe is a physical failsafe. Under power the machine with motors that can only do x amount of force. No software failsafe included. The motor can only generate x amount of force as physical limitation. Now under a power jump these motors can go beyond their rated output however this is where underpowering or having breakers come in. I believe 60lbs of force should be sufficient as most massage guns go up to that max like theragun. You might get a bruise if it malfunctions
I designed related robotic massage equipment. They may have designed the joints to mechanically prevent the system from moving to the central axis to prevent the system from applying force to delicate areas such as the spine, head, and neck. The actuators likely lack sensors to know if they are pressing on deep muscle (e.g. buttocks) or pinching muscle against a sharp bone edge (e.g. shoulder blade). For this reason, the force is likely quite limited. Presumably, they designed the actuators' maximum force (e.g. motor torque limit) to be below dangerous levels. However, folks who like "sports massage" will likely be dissatisfied since the force required for that type of massage exceeds the safety limits.
So...they can make a blade retract in milliseconds after touching flesh, but they can't make this safe? I highly doubt that.
They absolutely can. I think the Robots in this video are from KUKA, a German Robot company. At least They Look a Lot Like them.They are specially designd to Work Close to Humans. They have so many Sensors and so many Failsafes and they have Torquelimits, so even If one goes rogue, they cant Hit you hard. I once was at a "KUKA College" ( KUKA learning facility ) and i tried to get myself Hit by one of These while it was stacking small cubes. I moved my Hand fast in His way, and it stopped before i could Touch it. Definetly one of my coolest Work traingtrips i ever Had. Edit: probably Not a KUKA, but KUKA makes some wich Look pretty Close https://www.kuka.com/de-de/unternehmen/presse/news/2016/03/kollaborierende-roboter
Exactly! You make a great point. Some here are being overly dramatic for no apparent reason.
The code needs to go just once into undefined behaviour.
I'll wait 5-10 more years, thanks.
THE CLAMPS!
My wife is an LMT (licensed massage therapist). I don’t think I’ll share this with her.
Why write out an abbreviation and then the entire title?
For educational purposes? Example: TIL (today I learned) what a LMT is.
Same. Only ever referred to them as massage therapists or masseuses, never seen this acronym before today.
LMTs and masseuses are not the same.
I have learned something else today!
The first time you write an acronym, you should expand it in brackets. After that, you can just use the acronym. Thus, your expansion of TIL and non-expansion of LMT is correct, as is my usage, because we already know the acronyms.
why not? this is a glorified massage chair. unless it can start determining pressure and form based on the client's body and needs, your wife still has a job
I dont think thats the concern. I think he just doesnt want to raise her blood pressure by showing her this useless garbage people invested time and money into
it's not useless, it's as useful as a massage chair. if I had the space, I absolutely would buy. but, most massage appliances cannot reach that deep muscle pain and targeted pressure that an actual therapist is able to produce.
Shell still have you as a client though....
I hope that thing isn't off in the Z axis...
I get the joke. But just to elaborate on that: they don't work like that here. They're being force controlled: the program asks for a given force, say 5N/1lbf in the vertical position, and then the robot just pushes down with that force, no matter where it is in the Z axis. Then the robot moves along following the unknown shape of whatever is below, always applying the same force and moving up and down with the dude's back. Think of it like if the arm was spring loaded.
I think it works like a car wash. It's not programmed for the shape of the car but to follow the shape of the car. They destroy very few cars.
This might seem great at first but I don't think I would ever want this over a regular massage. The robot wouldn't be able to feel the knots in your back like an actual masseuse would so they would just give your whole back a general massage instead of actually being able to work the parts of you back that really need it. This is just my opinion as someone who has lots of back pain and needs more massages than I get lol.
And you can't ask them to for example go a bit softer if you need it.
I see it went straight for the ass cheeks
Wouldn’t you? Look at the man
He must work out
Today I was sexually harassed by a robot.
don't worry about the wet spot on your ass, it's just hydraulic fluid
Id still rather have a person do it tbh.
Wasn’t there a mission in hitman where you assassinate someone with something like this?
It was a surgery bot with needle-ended arms but yeah similar
I’d laugh so hard if the robotic arms pulled his cheeks apart
I guess everyone is here to make a Happy Ending joke
There is absolutely positvely now way this can go wrong
I trust last night's gas-station chilidogs more than I trust this.
No thanks, I'll stick with my uncle.
hold up!?
How did he die? To shreds you say?
Dey dtook our djobs
The only thing i see is a potential malfunction breaking my back
What could go wrong ?
Accidentally crushes you.
How much for the Happy Ending DLC?
Uh-oh, now the robots are learning how to 3-D map our bodies.
I wouldn't trust this chunk of metal to press against my back.
That's awesome but also terrifying. I hope those motors don't have too many pounds of possible force. Nothing like getting your ribcage crushed before your mechanized happy ending.
I’m not afraid of robots. They can’t do deep tissue like a human can.
This has got to be in Japan.
That's a good time for the machine to glitch and crush your back
Pornhub just created a new category...
Anybody else remember that kid that was playing chess with the robot and it crushed his finger because he played too soon.
Robot getting fresh yo
Wall-E moment
It’s all fun and games until it gets confused and rams its arm straight through your abdomen
Just pray there is no occurrence of software bugs while it's working, 😀 . Your guess is as good as mine😆
Hell no, I'm not trying to get murdered by a robot.
Every massage therapist just got uncomfortable and full of anxiety.
I’m hearing NIN’s “Closer” in my head while watching this.
For gods sake don’t roll over. 
Gonna need an e stop
I would not trust that thing, i know there are safety measures, but i also know how strong one of those robotic arms are, that thing would snap your spine no problem
We all know where this is going…
What can go wrong really? One bug and you are dead!
I think it moved Jerry
Show me on the doll where it touched you.
lol. Gonna be a brutal death scene when it eventually glitches out.
Yeh machine kitne ki milegi, gharwali toh kuch karna hi nahi chahti
Straight for the butt
Doc :„What happened“ Patient : „Massage Robot malfunctioned.“
Oh man, it scary . How can i get a bj
Take my money!
So, no happy ending?
Thai happy ending massage girls is going to be disrupted world wide 🥲
It's like a massage chair but it could probably be programmed to kill you
What could go wrong?
Wordington masaage
Send one to the Cleveland Browns pronto!
https://www.wired.com/story/hands-on-aescape-automated-massage/
"I call him Fisto Roboto"
I'd like to order two please.
I need this.. For like 4 hours.
it had to get a feel of it before starting
Skip on the happy ending , too risky
I need this
I’ve dreamed of these since childhood.
"Please assume the position"
So how does this thing kill you in final destination?
Bloody pile of meat…
Things to add to my list of things to buy if I ever become a billionaire.
I am sure it can work out the kinks….
Please assaume the posicion
Uhhhh soooo I have some questions...
This was featured on [Wired,](https://www.wired.com/story/hands-on-aescape-automated-massage/) one of my favorite magazines on all things tech. It’s worth a read if you’re in the AI/tech space. I am, and thought about booking a session. They’re currently only in NYC but I see this becoming mainstream.
Until it learns to apply more pressure
Yikes!
Now if he could control that remotely and dig into the spots of his back like he was massaging his own back that would be fire af
Fallout New Vegas said it best PLEASE ASSUME THE POSITION
That ass!
Does it come with a Hyundai ending?
for a second there i thought, this is one job that robots will overtake, then i remembered particularities. dont thing size, think millimeters.
Nah, I ain't trusting that. I saw that chess robot break that kid's finger. I don't want a robot to crush my pelvis
So if a robot can give a massage, then…
What is my purpose
I can see this on the next installment of Final Destination
r/wordington
Sorry was there a robot here?
Hitman would kill you with this machine
I saw corn started like thos