Tickling machine

[sockman]

Isn't it odd that you can't buy a tickling machine anywhere? It can't be that hard to design and build a machine that could make a tickling motion with fake fingernails. Any ideas?

 

[-Hari-]

I actually think regardless to popular belief, that this would work, if you had some well made fake nails on figers that simulated a good spider tickle movement, that randomized in speed, and it had a sensor to keep it the right distance from yor skin.

Altho, imagine the cost to build something that would simulate it well enuf to actually work

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

I'd never want to be tickled by a machine. Tickling is a very playful, social, and even intimate thing for me. The sensation is only a small part of it - I'd really miss the rest.

 

[slap'n'ticklee]

I'd never want to be tickled by a machine. Tickling is a very playful, social, and even intimate thing for me. The sensation is only a small part of it - I'd really miss the rest.

I'm with you 😀

I'd not want a machine near me, especially as it targets my whole body, it could make a horrible mechanical noise and that in itself would be off putting.

Gotta go with the real feel of a ler and all the noises he/she also makes.

 

[Redmage]

Isn't it odd that you can't buy a tickling machine anywhere? It can't be that hard to design and build a machine that could make a tickling motion with fake fingernails. Any ideas?

It's a lot harder than you might think. Tickling is more than just going through motions. It requires constant adjustments of pace, location, and pressure to do it effectively. And that's the hard part to program, because it's based on things like the lee's responses from moment to moment. You have to teach a machine to read emotions and interpret body language and adjust itself to get more of what it and the lee (and any observers) want.

Heck, you have to teach a machine to want something.

 

[Ledega]

I'm with you 😀

I'd not want a machine near me, especially as it targets my whole body, it could make a horrible mechanical noise and that in itself would be off putting.

Gotta go with the real feel of a ler and all the noises he/she also makes.

I agree with you.However it would be neat to perfect such a machine.Come home from work,set a timer or something and get a little tickle,in case someone is single and does'nt know anyone into tickling to do it for them.Such a machine in a perfected state could prove useful,I guess.

 

[AffectionateDan]

There are top men working on it right now.

 

[simulated]

Heck, you have to teach a machine to want something.

Teaching a machine to want something is easy. It's judging whether it's getting what it wants that's the hard part 😉.

As for this device, it would have to be tailored to a specific persons responses to even come close to working.

 

[Redmage]

Teaching a machine to want something is easy. It's judging whether it's getting what it wants that's the hard part 😉.

Yes, I should have been a little more specific. You'd have to teach a machine to make the 'lee (at the very least) "happy." If you can define what that means and tell the machine how to recognize signals that indicate a trend toward greater happiness.

People do so much of what we do automatically that it's hard to see sometimes.

Yeah I know you were poking me.

As for this device, it would have to be tailored to a specific persons responses to even come close to working.

I wonder how many variables you'd have to define and track even for that.

 

[milagros317]

Actually, people have seriously produced such machines:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/events/review_Anderson.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/installation.html#anderson

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/salon_youtube.html

 

[slap'n'ticklee]

Actually, people have seriously produced such machines:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/events/review_Anderson.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/installation.html#anderson

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/salon_youtube.html

That looks quite pricey for a session; I don't know how he kept so still whilst that probe was going all over his body, yikes!

I still believe that if you had a machine you'd lose the personal touch, not just of the tickles but a human being actually doing it. I like the touch of a guy doing this to me, someone that reacts to what he's doing.

 

[milagros317]

I would much prefer a living, breathing woman to a machine, too. 😀

But I did want to show people have actually spent considerable time and effort to make such machines.

 

[sasaxrah]

I'd never want to be tickled by a machine. Tickling is a very playful, social, and even intimate thing for me. The sensation is only a small part of it - I'd really miss the rest.

I completely agree.

 

[BOFH666]

I actually think regardless to popular belief, that this would work, if you had some well made fake nails on figers that simulated a good spider tickle movement, that randomized in speed, and it had a sensor to keep it the right distance from yor skin.

Altho, imagine the cost to build something that would simulate it well enuf to actually work

Actually, the hard part of that design from a hardware point of view is keeping it from gouging your flesh out. Yes, we can judge with some precision the distance from the skin... at a given point in time. But imagine, for a second, that this could actually be built and be as effective as a decent 'ler. The mechanism to do a smooth spider tickle is, by necessity, going to be fairly complex and not the fastest thing in the world to react. Now imagine the usual amount of movement from an average lee to a decent tickle.... Somehow you've got to get that hand not only moving smoothly and accurately enough to keep on tickling but you're making a LOT of tiny adjustements every second to keep each individual finger close enough to tickle but not close enough to hurt and there's virtually no chance of predicting which way the next thrash will go. It's just not practical.

The examples that milagros gave with hanging balls that can move with your body are a good example of how you could build something like this but to simulate a full-on hand tickle? Not with todays tech I suspect.

 

[Redmage]

Actually, people have seriously produced such machines:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/events/review_Anderson.html

Well, they're trying. This looks more like a presentation of concept than a working model. It might do more to show just how difficult it is to do this.

You can see first that the machine counts on its "subject" remaining motionless. Most of what you see it doing in that video clip is creating a "map" of the subject's body by moving back and forth over him. But if the subject moves significantly then the machine will have to start all over, because it can "see" only what it is touching at any given moment. It basically has to assume that areas it has already touched are still where they were. Obviously movement is pretty likely in the course of any serious tickling scene.

Also, the machine is unable to adjust the kind of sensation it delivers. It can't tell the difference between the skin of a man's unshaven face or the skin of a woman's breasts, for example, but those differences are crucial if you want to tickle. It can't evaluate a lee's responses and determine when it has found a "good spot" that needs more attention. And it can deliver only light feathery touches - great for some lees but not for others, and no good at all through clothing.

It's an interesting exercise in robotics, but still a long, long way from a real "tickle machine." Watch it, realize what it can and can't do, and you'll get more appreciation for the complex information and decision processes that go into your fetish.

 

[Musicroxmysox]

Machine....blech.