Sex Doll
(IN PHOTO) Thierry Reverdi, owner of the Dreamdoll company, adjusts the sunglasses of a silicone dream doll at their workshop in Duppigheim near Strasbourg, December 2, 2014. The realistic silicone sex dolls can be ordered from a catalogue based on four hair and eye color models for a base price of 5,500 euros ($6,150). The dolls weigh around 40 kilos due to a lightweight aluminum structure and take a week to construct. The company of three employees produces some one hundred custom-made silicone sex dolls a year, mainly for European customers. Picture taken December 2, 2014. Reuters

A San Marcos, California-based company is changing the playing field when it comes to sex dolls by coming out soon with Realbotix. The new-generation sex dolls would go beyond providing the physical needs of their owners but even their intellectual and emotional needs.

The Telegraph reports that the Realbotix dolls would have the ability to talk and think. That would be made possible by adding animatronics and artificial intelligence, or AI, which would create the illusion that the sex toy is enjoying the experience through the addition of customisable programming of personality.

The company hired a team from Hanson Robotics to animate the dolls which could talk “dirty.” With the AI, the new doll could follow commands and verbally reply to its owner, reports the New York Times. By using an animatronic head, the sex doll could blink its eyes and move its mouth.

Matt McCullen, the man behind the intelligent sex dolls, is also the creator of the $10,000-RealDoll made of silicone that could pose. He has sold more than 5,000 of RealDolls. Harmony, a prototype of the Realbotix sex doll, promises its owner, “a very exciting new form of adult companionship.”

But McCullen stresses that the sex dolls are not human replicas. “You can look at the best of my dolls and still tell it’s a doll, and I want to keep in that arena,” he points out. “A moving doll is different from a detailed-to-the-finest-skin-pore copy of a person, and making it move. For me that’s a little offputting,” McCullen says.

The Telegraph noted the similarity of McCullen’s sex dolls with the sci-fi movie Ex Machina by Alex Garland. The movie is about the relationship between the programmer Caleb and Ava, a female humanoid robot. Caleb tries to find out if Ava could exhibit the necessary level of intelligent behaviour that would make the robot pass the Turing Test.

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