The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and its organizer, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is under fire again. This time it’s for revoking a women-owned robotics startup’s award after implying their product is “immoral.”
Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, it’s a sexual wellness device designed by a team of women, for women, in conjunction with the University of Oregon robotics and engineering team.
“Lora DiCarlo’s first product, the Osé Robotic Massager, won [an] ‘honoree’ designation in the robotics and drones category of the CES Innovation Awards, according to the company’s founder, Lora Haddock. The awards are supposed to be determined by an independent panel that ranks a series of products, with any product that gets a high enough score becoming an honoree,”according to The Verge.
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