As delicate as servos fitted with sensitive feedback sensors can be, jumping into bed with a robot would very likely kill you. And we won’t see a commercially available, self-aware, humanoid sex robot in every home anytime soon.” That’s because the technical challenges of real robotic sex are pretty stiff. As Samantha Cole writes for Motherboard, “There’s little evidence that sex robots are the horny dystopian nightmare - or fantasy - that headlines make them out to be, but that doesn’t stop people from hyping them.
Sexbot tech is probably not what you imagine – yet! And the final frontier for Realbotix is a male sexbot – due to be released this year.
With its sister company RealDoll to draw on, McMullen’s is forging forward with servo-driven, ‘smart’ heads attached to super-lifelike bodies. These hurdles haven’t stopped Realbotix CEO Matt McMullen.
