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AI-powered sex robots are selling well during lockdown – which worries some experts, who say that they can introduce some surprising regulatory problems

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Sex robots empowered with artificial intelligence that allows them to converse have seen a boom in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, their makers say — providing important companionship to those left isolated. "Suddenly you're talking to a robot – not a device, not a computer screen, or a cylinder that's sitting on your desk. You're talking to something that looks like a human being, and that's where the magic happens," says Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix, a five-person Southern California company. Sales are up at least 50% during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he chalks up to loners needing companionship – and considering an option they might not have previously.   "I think that maybe someone would relax their thinking about something like this, given the current state of the world," McMullen said. "Maybe in the past they would be sort of hesitant, or think, 'What's wrong with me that I'm considering this?' I think people are g
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Your 'Westworld' sexbot is almost here,  thanks to RealDoll Abyss Creations, maker of the life-size RealDoll, releases an AI named Harmony on the unsuspecting world as its first step toward personal sex robots. Caitlin Petrakovitz  / CNET The maker of the RealDoll, a life-size faux-human you can have sex with, is stepping up its game. After months of teasing, Abyss Creations on Saturday released Harmony AI, an app with a "brain" determined to help your silicone RealDoll cater to your every whim and desire. Well, eventually. Once you're set up, you can interact with the AI using only your voice. Harmony will then continue to learn about you and remember "key facts" meant to "create an engaging simulation of a relationship," according to Abyss. Presumably, the more she learns, the more she'll transform into your dream girl. Created by a new Abyss subsidiary called Realbotix, the AI app is the precursor to Abyss' futu
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Sex robot BROTHEL to open in UK: Brits get chance to ‘LEGALLY fulfil any fantasy’ A BROTHEL where men can fulfil their “wildest fantasies” with sex robots “hard to distinguish from real women” is set to open in the UK, we can exclusively reveal.   Joshua Nevett   / Daily Star Daily Star Online revealed how  sex robots would one day revolutionise Britain’s backstreet brothels . Experts said the seedy underworld of prostitution would change drastically as demand for cyborg lovers skyrocketed. Now that prediction could soon be a reality as the company behind  Europe’s first sex doll brothel  looks to set up shop in the UK. HOT STUFF: Sex dolls available at the LumiDolls brothel in Barcelona, Spain Lumidolls  told Daily Star Online it is “looking for an investor in the UK” to finance a sex robot brothel. A spokesperson said: “We are currently in the process of expanding and looking for more franchisees in other countries. “If anyone is interested in th
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Sex with erotic robot that can ‘SELF LUBE’ will be ‘MORE intense than with humans’ Joshua Nevett / Daily Star Cyborg developer Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll, creates life-size "mind blowing" sex robots so realistic they “force people to take a second glance”. Last month his robotics firm, Realbotix, released Harmony AI – an app that allows fellas to make a “real human connection” with a unique AI personality. A  jaw dropping video revealed by Daily Star Online showcased Matt’s latest sex robot prototype  – dubbed Harmony 2.0 – talking dirty in an American accent. Harmony-style sex robots won’t hit the shelves until the end of 2017, when Matt will “make them to order” for customers. But in the meantime, Matt spoke exclusively to Daily Star Online about the latest incredible features for lads to drool over. INTENSE: Matt McMullen of RealDoll is developing sex robots that can self lube Matt revealed how RealDoll erotic cyborgs will be able to
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Next-gen sex dolls with personalities are on their way - but what does it mean for our sex lives?  Marie Claire Dorking / Yahoo Style UK [Photo: Instagram/Abyssrealdoll] A sex doll manufacturer has created a robot that allows users to pick their chosen personality to make their sex doll more like a real woman. But at almost £12K, she doesn’t come cheap. Meet Harmony. She knows everything about her partner, favourite films, foods and fantasies. For many, Harmony would be the dream girlfriend, but she isn’t a real person – simply a robot designed to take sex dolls to the next, more futuristic, level. Sold with a personality app that allows the user to shape her personality and behaviour, sex toy company RealDoll has designed the life-like doll so that she can also communicate and answer basic questions. Part of a new robotics revolution that is seeing artificial intelligence incorporated into an extremely human-like body, according to her makers Harmony 2.0 is the
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If the RealDoll wasn’t already threat enough to flesh-and-blood relationships, get ready for the faux lovers — designed to look hotter than any humans on the planet — to outthink us, as well as out-sex us. The company that produces the $7,000-or-so fornication toys, made from silicon and painted by hand, is coming out with a high-tech app that gives its products artificial brains. The hope is that the new iteration of RealDolls will be able to establish emotional ties to their owners — and, in the not-too-distant future, have some robotic qualities as well. It gets us one step closer to a real-world version of the film “Her,” in which Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with the Alexa-style software in his computer. “They made a movie about what we are trying to do,” Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll fabricator Abyss Creations, tells The Post. “We just released the AI as an app on the phone to customize [the doll’s] personality. Toward the end of the year, we will release

A sex doll that can talk - but is it perfect Harmony?

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By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter Harmony is a new type of sex doll - one that can move and talk. Her head, eyelids and lip movements are fairly crude and her conversation is even more limited. But she is part of a new robotics revolution that is seeing artificial intelligence incorporated into an extremely human-like body. Some think that it will revolutionise the way humans interact with robots while others believe that it represents the very worst in robotic advancement. The uncanny valley - the idea that the closer we get to replicating the human form, the more scared we become of our creations - seems to have come to life in this unassuming factory on the outskirts of San Marcos, California. Even on reception, two lifelike characters - in business suits rather than underwear, like the rest of the dolls - wait to greet visitors. And the lobby wall is full of photos of beautiful women which, only on very close inspection, reveal themselves to be of dolls. Matt