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RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-are-these-girls-you-speak-of? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

RealDoll, after almost 20 years of selling "the world's finest love doll," is developing an animated, robotic, artificially intelligent head that can be switched onto existing RealDoll bodies. The purpose, according to RealDoll's founder and CEO Matt McMullen, is to "arouse someone on an emotional, intellectual level, beyond the physical."

If you haven't heard of RealDoll before, the company makes expensive ($5,000-$10,000, £3,200-£6,400) but very realistic sex dolls. The dolls (which come in male and female varieties) have fully poseable skeletons, silicone skin, and are roughly the same weight and size as a real human. The dolls have interchangeable faces and orifices.

The reality that Westworld and AI imagined decades ago has arrived. What are the ethical implications? Would you be willing to use one?

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:28PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:28PM (#196948)

    You writing about the robot or GAA's TV show? Reads likely either way.

    We're gonna be having conversations like: "The goatse adapter is DRMed to only work on windows 8.1, appropriately enough, and if thats not bad enough it also wants to install ASK toolbar"

    I can't wait to see the Apple iSexRobot which will probably come with a black turtleneck sweater and when it doesn't work you'll get press releases about holding it wrong.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:19PM

    by Rich (945) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:19PM (#197021) Journal

    I can't wait to see the Apple iSexRobot ...

    Apple doesn't need to ship such a thing. With their pricing you get completely screwed over before you've even dropped your pants.

    (I own a fully decked-out RMBP)