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What do we actually want from a massage?
Of course, the selling point of Aescape is not just that a Rosie the Robot is at your beck and call, but that she has scanned your body for a blueprint.
Is it the relief of physical tension, the correction of some bodily ill for greater comfort or flexibility?
After all, thats what a massagerobot-enabled or notis: indulgence.
has been subtracted from the equation.
photo: courtesy of Aescape
(More on the outfit in a moment.)
It is also customizable, physically but also in all other ways.
Maybe you’re not in the headspace where you want to zone out.
photo: courtesy of Aescape
After a wider commercial release this fall, additional locations will open.
Once youre duly dressed, you lie face down on a massage table.
There are no towels or sheets here save for a bit of paper around the headrest.
The robot is at your command.
It also, as Litman points out, applies equal force to the body simultaneously.
That’s not something a massage therapist does.
When it was pressing deep into the muscles of my hips, it felt that perhaps it did.
Did I want to listen to a hip-hop or rainstorm soundtrack?
Was the pressure too light or too firm?
Can you enter a meditative state with an onslaught of information, I wondered?
About those arms: Too many, myself included, that might seem the most alarming part.
There is no mistaking the Aescape experience for a conventional massage in that respect.
Nothing about this experiencefor better or worseinvokes the sensation of skin on skin.
I adjusted the pressure so that the feeling edged toward pain, and I liked it.
