LAS VEGAS—The Lora DiCarlo team made international headlines earlier this week when news broke the Consumer Electronics Show revoked an “innovation in robotics” award the company’s Osé pleasure product had won, but another company still chose to honor the manufacturer with its own award.
IHS Markit—a world leader in critical informations, analytics and solutions—presented the award to the Lora DiCarlo team at the ShowStoppers Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press event on Tuesday, January 9. The awards showcased the most innovative technology products submitted by event exhibitors.
“We’re very excited to accept this award,” Lora Haddock, Founder/CEO said. “Our team is delighted to see that the judging panel for IHS Markit saw the outstanding robotic and biomimetic innovations in Osé and the huge potential for implications in tech and iterative processes beyond even the sex tech uses.”
“IHS Markit proudly awards this year’s IHS Markit Innovation Award in Robotics and Drones to the Lora DiCarlo team,” said Francis Sideco, VP Technology for IHS Markit. “Lora DiCarlo’s entry stood out for it’s creativity, ingenuity and spirit of innovation.”
Lora DiCarlo, a company founded in 2017 by United States Navy veteran Lora Haddock, raised more than $1 million in financing last year, and acquired eight separate patents for the technology that went into its “Osé personal massager,” a device that “mimics all of the sensations of a human mouth, tongue, and fingers, for an experience that feels just like a real partner” using “advanced micro-robotics” to produce a “blended” clitoral and G-spot orgasm—and does it all without “buzzing, desensitizing vibrations,” the company’s promo material claims.
On Oct. 10, the Consumer Technology Association, which stages the annual CES, informed Lora DiCarlo the Osé was a 2019 recipient of the group’s honor for robotics and drone innovation. But just three weeks later, the company received another letter from CTA, saying that the award had been taken away because, “Entries deemed by CTA in their sole discretion to be immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image will be disqualified.”
Read more about that incident at AVN.com.
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