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Realbotix Update: Sexbot Solana Revealed, Male Version in the Works, and Possible Trans Robot

By Jenna Owsianik, Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net
January 19, 2018
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Upcoming features unveiled for line of realistic sex robots.

The Realbotix team has been hard at work since launching its artificial intelligence app, Harmony AI, last year. The software program, which stores two avatars and their unique personalities, is central to soon-to-be-released upgrades.

Solana and Harmony AI app upgrades

You won’t want to miss Christopher Trout’s Engadget video interview with Abyss Creations CEO Matt McMullen at CES 2018. In it McMullen demonstrates how one robotic head can be altered to have a different appearance, voice, and personality.

He also talks about progress on creating a vision system for the robot. It includes object and facial recognition as well as visual tracking that would allow the robot to follow you with its eyes as you move.

Another potential update to the Harmony app is a manual remote-control mode. McMullen told Trout it could make it possible to enter lines of dialogue into the app for the robot to speak as well as the ability to control the robot’s facial movements.

Originally the robotic head was meant to go on sale in December 2017. The revised launch date is now the end of January. McMullen told Future of Sex he has received fewer than 100 pre-orders and that the head will cost between $8,000 and $10,000.

Male robot in development

As we’ve reported before, McMullen wants to create a male version of the interactive robot Harmony. Speaking with Trout, he confirms he is now attempting to create one. He adds that it may need to be a separate app that could eventually merge with Harmony AI.

There has been, however, some media backlash to the idea of a man creating a male sex robot for women rather than a woman doing it herself. Samantha Cole of Motherboard presents some criticism and interesting views from Cindy Gallop and Girl on the Net in her article “Does Anyone Really Want a Male Sex Robot?”

of course, of COURSE we have to talk about the male sexbot and its “bionic penis”https://t.co/uPMxPIqFwI

— Samantha Cole (@samleecole) January 11, 2018

Possible transgender robot

The Sun also recently reported that Realbotix may eventually design a transgender version of its AI-enhanced companion. While there is arguably a market out there for them, this possibility has garnered concerns from trans activists about the harms of sexualizing the community.

I’d also like to note that when I’ve spoken with McMullen, he’s often rephrased my questions to focus more on the companionship aspect of his love dolls rather than the sexual aspects. It’s clear that the Realbotix project does offer sexual components. But I feel like he’s trying to make more well-rounded robot personalities and that sometimes the media focuses on sex to the exclusion of other details.

Still users are able to customize their robots' personalities however they want. That means the power is in their hands to create one with as little or as much eroticism as they desire.

Robotic body progress

The headlines are true! UK tabloids often report on eye-popping sexual possibilities that I’m not sure are real or clickbait. But McMullen has confirmed to Future of Sex that the Realbotix team is indeed working on a full-body heating and sensor system for its next-generation  body. Oh, and we can’t forget to mention they are also developing a self-lubricating vagina.

Image sources: Realbotix

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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