Send a hug using a robotic pillow
By Peter Rojas 
posted Nov 11th 2004 2:09PM
posted Nov 11th 2004 2:09PM
There's something totally, totally sad about the Hug, a new wireless-enabled pillow created by robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that let's you remotely send a hug to someone far away (it's mainly meant as way for grandparents and grandchildren to "stay in touch". Basically you have one person squeeze the left paw of their Hug, then say the name of the person they want to send the hug to. It then automatically calls up the Hug owned by the corresponding person, who then squeezes the left paw of their Hug to accept the hug and create a direct link between the two pillows. Then each person can use sensors to…ok, this is getting way too creepy. Just read the article.
"Basically you have one person squeeze the left paw of their Hug, then saw the name of the person they want to send the hug to."
Sounds like to much carpentry to me
Well now there's a hug robot, so what's next? A kissing robot? That would just lead to a make-out robot. This is a dangerous slippery slope. Um, no pun intended.
It's going to get to the point where we have to unplug our appliances so we aren't, uh, accosted by our electronics.
weird
perhaps there is some use in therapy.
this has all the machinations of a japanese school-girl's monthly fad purchase.
That's pretty wierd. I go to CMU and I never heard anything about it. Of course there's wierder stuff here than that.
very strange
o_O
Sorry grandma... I had it set to "humping".
"If someone is not home to receive a hug, the other person can leave a message that includes voice and VIBRATION patterns"
Hmm..wonder if you can mod it.
this is stupid idea.
Grandma's what? But how? A pillow, you say? But how did it? Oh my. I just never figured that my disgruntled cousin would ever try something so low as strangling grandma from the comfort of his own home.
a way to actually receive all those cyber-hugs?
how it is possible to built same disaster like that?????
the love is virtual, the wife of plastic, and the hug from a robot....
we miss the contact, and the tecnology must discover same thing
to stay together not to continue to improve distanze for the buisness
of some body.
meat to meat is the contact.
well this is a nice pillow, i want to squeeze it more and more until the copper wires hang out like a pubic boom of acne relations then pass it onto my step mother and put it set on ultra squeeze mode rendering the recipient having the last hug ever in a blissful way of creating an exit door to the other side.
nice pillow....awwwwwww.