Realdoll Eurasia Newsblog

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...

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...