We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back

Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by undecisive on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:54AM (#18872700)

I guess the argument is that if the only difference between two "robots" is the gender of their intended audience, and one gets banned, then that's prejudice.

Along the same lines as, if the only difference between two people doing the same job is their gender, and one gets paid more, then that's prejudice.

They're not wrong.

Of course, CES could argue that it's bad timing - that the new product came out just as CES started cleaning up. Maybe these male-oriented developments will be similarly disallowed. We'll have to wait and see. Still, terrible optics for CES and a bad decision all round.

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by rndgermandude on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:49AM (#18873191)

Their vibrator got banned from competing for an award. It did NOT get banned from being at CES.

The male-focused sex products did not even compete for the awards as far as I can tell, or at least did not get any of the awards.

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by allnew on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:06AM (#18873516)

>and subsequently that we would not be allowed to showcase Osé, or even exhibit at CES 2019.

It did, which means that there is a bias, given that other sex-themed tech was not similarly banned.

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by fermienrico on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:58AM (#18873817)

"Along the same lines as, if the only difference between two people doing the same job is their gender, and one gets paid more, then that's prejudice."

I agree BUT:

How do you know the only difference between the selection of the robots was specifically and exclusively gender? May be other robots contending for the award deserved it and they were actually better robots!?

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by calgoo on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:50AM (#18874184)

Well, if there where better robots, then they would have won the award in the first place. the strange thing here in regards to that, is that they won the award and then CES came and said, sorry we take it back, with no real reason why.

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Re:We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it... by fermienrico on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:37PM (#18887359)

Ah, good point. That’s really strange.

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