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The world's first massage robot was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to soothe those sore from dashing about the gargantuan gadget extravaganza.
Palm-sized WheeMe massagers made by Israel-based startup DreamBots were in a newly established CES robotics zone with creations ranging from therapeutic mechanical seals to playful lifelike baby dinosaurs.
'It gives you a nice tickling feeling,' Ms Karen Slutzky of DreamBots said as a WheeMe manoeuvred independently on the back of a woman laying on a massage table at CES, which ends Sunday.
'It is a gentle skin massage; very relaxing. And, it doesn't fall off.' Curvy, car-shaped WheeMe units have wheels designed with 'fingerlettes' and the robots vibrate. Invented by Ms Slutzky's husband, Mr Eyal Avramovich, the robots use feedback from sensors to not ride off backs or stomachs and to stop at waistlines.
Elsewhere in the robotics zone, Mr Takatoshi Kuno of Cyberdine in Japan demonstrated a mechanised 'suit' for helping the elderly or paralysed walk. Robot Suit HAL (hybrid assistive limb) consisted of a waist harness and mechanised extensions strapped to a user's legs. The suit read impulses from nerves in the legs to enable people to walk.
Paro was in the zone with fluffy robotic seals certified as a medical devices by the US Food and Drug Administration. The Japan-based company pitched the seals as therapeutic aids for older people suffering from depression or dementia.
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