She is a willowy five feet seven and 120 pounds. She’ll discuss with you constantly about your interests.

And she will have sex when you please — so long as her battery doesn’t run out. Meet Roxxxy, who could be the planet’s most up-market speaking female sex robot. For $7,000, she is all yours. “She doesn’t vacuum or cook, but she does pretty much everything else,” expounded her inventor, Douglas Hines, who exposed Roxxxy last month at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Vegas, Nevada. Lifelike dolls, synthetic sex organs and sex-chat telephone lines have been keeping the lonesome company for years.

But Roxxxy takes virtual companionship to a higher level. Powered by a PC under her soft silicone “skin,” she employs voice-recognition and speech-synthesis software to answer questions and carry on talks.

She even comes piled high with 5 distinct “personalities,” from Frigid Farrah to Wild Wendy, that may be programmed to suit customers’ preferences.

“There’s an incredible need for this type of product,” claimed Hines, a P. C. scientist and previous Bell Laboratories engineer. Roxxxy will not be available for delivery for a couple of months, but Hines is taking pre-orders thru his internet site, TrueCompanion.com, where thousands of men have signed on. “They’re like, ‘I can not wait to meet her,’ “Hines related. “It’s sort of like the expectation of a first date.” Ladies have inquired about ordering a sex robot, too.

Hines recounts a female sex specialist even made contact with him about purchasing one for her patients. Roxxxy has been like catnip to talk-show hosts since her debut at AEE, the biggest porn-industry convention in the country. In a monologue, Jay Leno expressed awe a sex robot could carry on lifelike talks and express practical feelings. “Luckily, guys,” he joked, “there’s a button that turns that off.” Curious conventioneers packed Hines’ AEE booth last month in Vegas, asking questions and stroking Roxxxy’s skin as she sat on a couch in a black slip. “Roxxxy generated a large amount of buzz at AEE,” asserted Grace Lee, spokesman for the porn-industry convention. “The prevailing sentiment of everybody I rapped with about Roxxxy is ‘version 1.0,’ but folk were intrigued by the postulate, and it caused them to rethink the probabilities of ’sex toys.’ “Hines, a self-professed happily wed man from Lincoln Park, New Jersey, claims he expended over 3 years developing the robot after attempting to find a marketable application for his artificial-intelligence technology. Roxxxy’s body is made of hypoallergenic silicone — the sort of stuff in prosthetic limbs — moulded over a stiff skeleton. She won’t move on her very own but can be contorted into just about any natural position. To form her shape, a female model spent a week posing for a collection of molds. The robot runs on a self-contained battery that lasts about 3 hours on one charge, Hines says. Shoppers can recharge Roxxxy with an electric twine that plugs into her back. A motor in her chest pumps heated air thru a tube that winds through the robot’s body, which Hines asserts keeps her warm to touch. Roxxxy also has sensors in her hands and genital areas — yes, she’s anatomically correct — which will trigger vocal replies from her when touched. She even shudders to simulate orgasm. When anyone talks to Roxxxy, her PC converts the words to text and then uses pattern-recognition software to match them against a database containing lots of suitable replies. The robot then answers out loud — her prerecorded “voice” is supplied by a nameless radio host — thru a loudspeaker concealed under her wig. “Everything you assert to her is processed. It is very near realtime, about without delay,” Hines asserted of the dynamics of human-Roxxxy conversation. “To make it as realistic as practical she has different dialogue at different times. She talks in her sleep. She even snores.” ( The snoring feature can be turned off, he asserts. ) Roxxxy understands and speaks only English for the moment, but Hines’ True Companion company is developing Japanese and Spanish versions. For an additional fee, he’ll also record customizable dialogue and phrases for each customer, meaning Roxxxy could talk with you about NASCAR, say, or the complexities of politics in the Middle East. Hines believes that Roxxxy is a step above other love dolls — the similar but mute RealDoll costs circa $5,500 — because her conversational capabilities provide something close to emotional friendship. His client base? Shy, ungainly or older blokes who “have difficulty meeting girls,” he is saying.

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