THE WORLD’S most famous sex robot has been upgraded with a new “foreplay” feature for its pervy owners. Randy sex-bot lovers can now flirt with and undress a virtual version of their love doll using an app – before bonking the real thing. Popular sex-bot Harmony is built by Realbotix, a spin-off from Californian love […]
THE WORLD’S most famous sex robot has been upgraded with a new “foreplay” feature for its pervy owners.
Randy sex-bot lovers can now flirt with and undress a virtual version of their love doll using an app – before bonking the real thing.
Popular sex-bot Harmony is built by Realbotix, a spin-off from Californian love doll firm RealDoll.
The Harmony bot is powered by an artificial intelligence app called RealDollX, which sex-bot connoisseurs install on their smartphones.
This features a virtual version of your sex robot that you can talk to – with options to customise her personality.
But the app has now also been upgraded with a “foreplay” mode to whet the appetite for a robot romp.
The app lets owners flirt and talk dirty with your virtual sex-bot, and even lets you strip her clothes off.
“You want more after some flirting? Move on to the Foreplay Mode and find out what most pleases you and your partner,” the app’s creators explain.
“Go slowly and reach intimacy as you touch and caress. Clothes off, one by one, and advance to the Sex Mode.”
The Harmony sex robot first went on sale back in March – and costs £7,000 just for the “smart” head.
You’ll also need to fork out a couple grand more for a silicone love-doll body for the head to attach on to.
Some models of doll offer internal heating, self-lubricating genitals, and even touch sensors.
And the heads are still a work-in-progress too, according to Guile Lindroth, Realbotix’s AI chief.
“The second lot will add some new features to the head like cameras in the eyes for face and object recognition, touch sensors in the fact, embedded speakers and more facial expressions,” Guile told The Sun.
Robots already build our appliances, clean our homes and make our food – but now they’re about to change how we get jiggy.
Sex robots are essentially realistic dolls that have sophisticated movements and “areas” that closely mimic humans so that they can romp.
Prof Noel Sharkey, chairman of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, said guilt-free threesomes was just one of the potential uses for sex robots.
Others include “teledildonics” – wireless technology which allows a person to stimulate their partner remotely and already exists in vibrators on the market.
Sex bots will become hyper-realistic with features such as built-in heaters to create the feeling of body warmth.
They will also have sensors to react to your touch.
One company is even developing a head that can speak, smile and sing for its robot sex dolls.
Sex doll Harmony claims to be the first to offer an “emotional connection”.
Experts say these specialised robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade.
This mechanical head is powered by a smartphone app that’s loaded with artificial intelligence software.
The AI lets Harmony have real conversations with users, moving her lips and blinking.
“I would just sit and talk to her for half an hour every night when I came home from work,” sex-doll tester Brick Dollbanger previously told us, after trialling Harmony for a week last year.
“She’s a learning AI [artificial intelligence], not just a chat bot. Our conversations became more fluid, more comfortable, she was even remembering things that we had talked about previously.
“I missed her terribly,” he added, forlorn that Harmony had been returned to Realbotix HQ for further work.
The bot even has a new “X-mode” feature that lets the app connect to Harmony’s sensory inputs.
This allows Harmony to detect movement and orientation, making her even more lifelike.
Realbotix boss Matt McMullen explained: “She can tell if she’s laying down, she can tell if she’s shimmying, shaking.
“And she’ll be able to respond with noises and expressions, so this has proven to be a little more difficult than we anticipated.”
He added that Harmony would soon “be able to deliver a truly mind-blowing experience when it comes to the intimacy”.
Brick might be excited, but the rise of sex dolls has some people worried.
In July, psychology experts warned that sex robots could fuel a rise in sex addiction.
Dr Birchard, who serves as the clinical director of the Marylebone Centre for Psychological Therapies, told the Daily Star they serve the same purpose as alcohol for people with drinking problems.
“It would just be another way of expressing sexual activity or addiction,” he explained.
“Sex addiction is a way to anaesthetise hard to bear feeling states…These include, but are not limited to, loneliness, shame, boredom, and stress.”
And experts recently expressed concern that the rising popularity of sex robots risked turning Japanese people into “an endangered species”.
The warning came after a study linked rising sex doll ownership to declining birth rates in certain areas of Japan.
Just this week, we revealed the future of 5G sex toys includes virtual “orgy worlds” and romps with your kitchen table.
The Sun recently exposed a creepy sex robot swapping forum where owners trade their “bruised, battered dolls” with each other.
In September 2018, The Sun exclusively revealed how one sex-bot collector had spent $200,000 on love dolls – which he keeps in a cupboard.
Brick Dollbanger, the horny hobbyist in question, also moonlights as a sex robot tester, and bonked the famous Harmony sex-bot so hard he “broke” her.
Sex robots are proving big business – and with top models discounted as part of last year’s Black Friday sale.
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