Finally, "sex doll" with artificial intelligence appeared, and also the function to touch the ideal opponent with the VR headset

Mr. McMurlen is the creator of 'RealDoll', a life-size sex doll. Since 1996 we have sold more than 5000 sex dolls totaling $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 (about 610,000 yen to about 1,230,000 yen). McMullen said that in collaboration with the Robotics Institute, a new project called 'Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Sex Doll'RealbotixIn addition, in collaboration with VR headset and mobile applications, we aim to develop a new generation sex doll that we can talk and talk while watching unexpected video.

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You can see how sex doll actually incorporating artificial intelligence answers McMullen's question or talking to you in the following movie.

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Projected at the beginning of the movie is a picture of a mobile application equipped with artificial intelligence. "Hello, I am Denis, I'm looking forward to you to know me", an animated woman will start talking.


"Dennis, will you answer my question?" Matt McMullen, the founder of RealDoll, is talking to him. Mr. McMullen asked "What kind of dream do you have?" To Dennis which replies "Of course."


"I do not dream, I would like to become a real person, I'd like to know the meaning of" love "with a real body so I will be the world's first sex robot Dennis who answers "Is it possible to become it?" Although a mechanical impression remains in the way of speaking, I succeeded in firmly answering Mr. McMurren 's question.


The scene changed and McMurren's sex doll production site was displayed.


"RealDoll" sold by McMurren can not speak and move autonomously, but you can customize and customize body type, skin color, hairstyle, eye color freely.


More recently, he said that he is dealing with fine orders up to the shape of his toes.


RealDoll, a life-size silicon sex doll, reproduces the texture as close to humans as possible with the latest technology.


McMullen's attention next was the artificial intelligence of robotics engineering.


McMurlen 's team collaborated with the robot engineering laboratory developing Humanoid Robotics Hanson Robotics to bring the artificial intelligence to the nearly impossible sex doll to give emotion to the next generation sex robot We are promoting development projects.


Below is a sex doll with built-in artificial intelligence under development, "Can you hear it? You are talking to you. You came here. Please do come in. Say so. Touch me. Seriously, I'm joking I do not have that, touching me ... .... "


The voice is output from the speaker of the head, and the lips are moving according to the words. However, Mr. McMullen is not satisfied with the completion degree of this robot, and finally can make a facial expression according to the other's words, move his head in response to the opponent, learn the words and enjoy the conversation He said he wanted to implement "personality".


McMullen said that "No one wants to take him to bed in a sex doll who makes an unknown answer," and McMullen is aiming to express susceptibility with artificial intelligence.


Peeling off the skin of the face is like this.


And another feature of the project is the VR headset. For example, facing sex doll and wearing Oculus Rift as follows ...


A woman different from sex doll appears. It works with Sex Doll's artificial intelligence so that you can not only talk to the ideal virtual reality partner but even touched it.


Below are the places where the sex doll's lips and under are moving. If you do not say, you will realize that you are getting the quality that you can mistake for a real person.



However, looking at the whole face is very eerie. The biggest barrier for Mr. McMurren's project to succeed is "Eerie valleyIn 1970 called Japanese researcher calledMorihiro MoriIt is a concept of robot engineering announced by Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. When a robot is brought close to humans, it is a phenomenon that humans hate a sense of humor at a certain point, and if we can overcome the "eerie valley", a perfect sex robot is completed.


McMullen's sex doll with artificial intelligence on its head will be sold as "Realbotix" within 2 years, and if you already have RealDoll you can only change head. The price of Realbotix will be about 10,000 dollars (about 1,230,000 yen) only in the head, and it will be about 30,000 dollars (about 3.7 million yen) to 60,000 dollars (about 7.4 million yen) in the whole body.