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206 I got a $99 massage from an AI robot and will probably never do it again. Here's why, and what surprised me the most.

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Tess Martinelli @ Business Insider · today 12:12 EDT

I got a $99 massage from an AI robot and will probably never do it again. Here's why, and what surprised me the most.

A massage from an AI robot kind of felt human, but lacked certain aspects of the human touch and required me to engage in too much screen time.

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