Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

Looks like those assisted suicide pods. I can imagine a mixup during a sitcom leading to shenanigans.

Interesting idea. Seriously over-engineered though.

If you want a ‘human washer’ you don’t need a $350k fancy chair with heart rate monitors. Just take a page out of the automatic car wash.

Human stands in a stall. Shower allows human washing of hair and face. Then just hold arms out making a diamond in front of you (think TSA body scanner position, but with arms forward instead of upward) and a 360° robotic sprayer starts at the neck and goes down spraying soapy water, then back up again with a slight up angle to get the groin and armpits. Shower comes back on to de-shampoo hair, then the same 360 robot does two passes with clean water to rinse everything off.

If you get fancy with machine vision and body position sensors, the 360 wand could flip 90° to do the hair and would be angled backward a bit so it doesn’t get water or soap in your face.

You could build this for a lot less than $350k. And instead of $1500 worth of body sensors you have a $50 waterproof emergency stop button.

The idea of just relaxing in a pod while listening to music and getting a full body clean without any effort does sound pretty great to me. It even dries you off which is even more awesome.

Saw the YT video for this a while back (~15 mins) and thought it mostly a nostalgic throwback to the stuff we saw or hoped for in the 80s and 90s. If “how can we charge rent for this?” hadn’t come along and destroyed innovation, anyway.

It seems more like a proof of concept, as it just fills soapy water up past the seal line, shows progress and wildlife scenes on screen (which will definitely be used to advertise at you eventually), sprays your face and other bits above the water line, drains, and then blow dries you. You’d still need to scrub, and wash your back, butt, etc.

I was kind of hoping for one of those sonic/pulsing water/jet-wash/scrubbing shower things you see in SF. This isn’t it.

But it is great that some companies are still innovating. It’s been a while.

“The user lies down…”

How does it wash your back?

I mean judo is the art of folding clothes while people are still wearing them, why not wash them first.

I’ve always wanted a car wash style blow-dry

So a car wash?

These might become a thing in the US when some vapid influencer acts smug toward ‘dirty people’ who can’t afford one.

If it works like the washing machine in Gattaca, there is a neat risk that it doesn’t end well.

I recommand to watch this -now old- movie by the way

I have been looking for a bathhouse with an old lady with big fat arms that can rub me down and clean me with a brush and sponge for ages. I am willing to pay top dollar to get cleaned. Just put me in a bucket of water and clean me, woman.

“According to company spokeswoman Sachiko Maekura, the new machine not only cleans the body but also “washes the soul,” using sensors to monitor the user’s heartbeat and vital signs throughout the process”

Corpo speak for " People kept drowning so we added sensors"

Japan? Like, the country of Japan made this?