The Sex Robots In 2023.
Advances in technology, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), are impacting our everyday lives in ever more ways—including our sex lives. Sex robots—life-size, lifelike machines powered by AI and used for sexual purposes—are one such emerging technological system.
The Harmony sex robot costs about €11000. The sex-bot is built by a tech firm called Realbotix, which is a subdivision of RealDoll, a Californian company that makes inanimate love dolls.
Harmony is a lifelike robotic head that attaches onto silicon bodies, and can talk to you, crack jokes, and even recall facts from previous conversations.
Harmony first hit headlines back in 2016, sparking a wave of pre-orders from horny sex-bot fans. And now the deliveries of those orders are now going out to customers.
Buyers purchaise the head – which can be attached to regular silicone love-doll bodies. 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. The head is a learning AI [artificial intelligence], not just a chat bot. Conversations can be more fluid, more comfortable, she was even remembering things that had talked about previously.
In 2022, RealDoll released their first-ever male sex robot Henry. The AI software for Henry, the new male sex robot is complex.
Alongside creating a new gender for the robot, RealDoll also had to create a sexual preference in the profile which would appeal to the female market. Henry is totally AI-activated and will feature a fully functioning penis, strong enough to lift a pickup truck.
Henry can also interact with its owner by welcoming them home in their accent of choice before having a conversation about why reality television is such a joke. Heck, he can even tell its master jokes and drop romantic pickup lines like a pro.
In 2022, Bedbible, a sex toy review site, published a study that claimed the sex robot industry is worth about 200 millon US dollars, and the average price, the company said, is $3567 per sexbot.
That would mean about 56000 sex robots are sold per year worldwide among an adult population for around 5 billion.
The robots are kind of a niche issue. They probably will never get to be as huge as everyone thinks.
More pervasive sextech will be is AI teaming with virtual reality. The AI will learn from conversations with the individual user, creating a shared history and building intimacy through that – learning who you are, what you like, what your kinks are, “hooking people into an ongoing experience”.