The Turing Test for Humanoid Robots

Top priority for male customers above 35 will be muscle pain relief.

Hear me out.

A Turing Test for humanoid robots would need to account for more than simple conversational capability. It needs to account for geospatial awareness, interaction with complex systems, visual acuity, dexterity, and risk mitigation.

Here’s my idea for the test: Can this humanoid robot successfully find my trigger points and relieve me of muscle pain through manual massage?

In any case, as I’ve progressed in my fitness journey over the past 3 years and bounced between physical therapists, regenerative sports medicine specialists, muscle activation therapists, and everyone in between, I can’t stop thinking about how much of a killer use case this would be for humanoid robots.

Or maybe I’m just getting old and creaky.