What It is Wish to Sit in a $12,000 AI Therapeutic massage Chair?

It begins together with your ass. The Human Contact Tremendous Novo 3.0, which very fancy therapeutic massage chair firm Human Contact let me check out at CES 2026, is a behemoth contraption of a chair that’s lined in leather-based and is curvy and ponderous in a manner that, for causes I can’t clarify, stored making me consider the Mandoshawans in The Fifth Aspect. If you sit in it, slip your arms into the grooves on the perimeters, and lie again, it slowly rolls again and goes to work.

The very first thing I seen was rotating mechanical fingers sliding round my butt cheeks, massaging my sorer-than-I-realized glutes. Then it was the leg channels gripping my legs whereas different roving robotic fingers crawled round my again. The sales space consultant advised me the seat was getting a way of the place my shoulders are so it is aware of how tall I’m. Then it spent 10 minutes squeezing my limbs, prodding my again and toes, and bending and flexing me, all whereas birds chirped in my ears from JBL audio system embedded within the chair. Actually, I felt a bit of like a cartoon character in some form of wacky, overwrought (however enjoyable) contraption.

On the fitting aspect of the chair was a pill for starting or configuring therapeutic massage periods. The corporate says you can even use it to speak with AI, telling it issues like what sort of therapeutic massage you need, however that wasn’t working throughout my demo—the sales space consultant stated they needed to hold it disabled because of the dangerous Wi-Fi, because it’s a cloud-based AI mannequin.

Human Contact says the Tremendous Novo 3.0 might be obtainable within the first quarter at $11,999. Too wealthy for my blood, however for these of you who can someway afford Human Contact’s chairs, you’ll be able to test them out at the company’s website.

And to reply the query from the headline: it felt nice. human therapeutic massage is sort of actually higher in each manner, however I wouldn’t say no to a different go within the factor.

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