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World's first sex robot
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: January 16th, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6963...
The worlds first sex robot, a life-size rubber doll called Roxxxy who can have real conversations with her owner, including about football, has been unveiled. The dark-haired, negligee-clad, life-size robotic girlfriend comes complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin. Standing five feet, seven inches tall, the doll weighs 120 pounds, comes with five personalities, [and] is ready for action her developers said. Aspiring partners can customise her features, including race, hair colour and breast size. Coming with a laptop the doll, priced between US$7,000 (4,350) to US$9,000 (5,993), was unveiled at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Douglas Hines, the robots football loving inventor, said the real aim was to make the doll someone the owner can talk to and relate to. She can't vacuum, she can't cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean, the New Jersey-based artificial intelligence engineer said. Mr Hines said it was not only a recreational innovation but also something that shy people with sexual dysfunction, and those who want to experiment without risk, could use. In a 2007 book, Love and Sex with Robots, British chess player and artificial intelligence expert David Levy argues that robots will become significant sexual partners for humans, answering needs that other people are unable or unwilling to satisfy.
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