Aescape Robot Massager
massages | new york city | robots
Look out, massage therapists — robots are coming for your jobs. We foolishly didn’t fight them when they started making cars, acting as security guards, and delivering sodas, but now there’s one that literally has us in its soulless clutch. Robotics start-up Aescape debuted automated robotic massages from a mantis-looking thing with two mechanical arms.
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At least it comes in peace. It’s an automated massage table that gives customized massages by using AI tech to create a 3-D computational model of each guest’s body. However, it does not respond to vocal commands, so a request like “softer please so my kidneys don’t pop” does not compute.
Guinea pigs/customers for the AI massage experience is happening now at Lotte New York Palace hotel’s ila Only Spa. A 30-minute appointment costs $75, which is quite a bargain, especially when you factor in the savings when you stiff the thing on a tip. Coming soon to NYC Equinox locations.
