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The robot revolution is coming—and it will be much sexier than anticipated.
Abyss Creations, maker of the life-size RealDoll sex toy, last week released the Harmony AI app, for all your on-the-go intimacy needs.
Available as a $20 annual subscription directly from Abyss subsidiary Realbotix, the artificial intelligence platform lets users create a unique digital personality.
Choose carefully from 18 character traits; make certain features—imaginative, sense of human, intellectual, affectionate, kind—more dominant to affect how your AI behaves, and what topics may come up in conversation.
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Think of it as a more sensual version of Siri, which learns and adapts over time to simulate a real relationship (or friendship, if that’s what you’re into).
Realbotix, however, takes you deeper into the uncanny valley with the ability to design your own avatar. Create the 3D woman (a male version of the app is in the works) of your dreams by adjusting body shape and size, skin color, and other physical features—eyes, nails, hair, clothing.
“By combining various textures and colors, the different looks you can achieve for your avatar are nearly limitless,” the Realbotix app description said.
A voice editor also makes it possible to change the pitch and rate of speech.
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“Many of our clients rely on their imaginations to a great degree to impose imagined personalities on their dolls,” Abyss CEO Matt McMullen told Digital Trends. “With the Harmony AI, they will be able to actually create these personalities instead of having to imagine them.
“They will be able to talk to their dolls, and the AI will learn about them over time through these interactions, thus creating an alternative form of relationship,” he continued. “The scope of conversations possible with the AI is quite diverse, and not limited to sexual subject matter.”
A Harmony AI app subscription is available now for Android; there is no word on an iOS launch.
Those customers really serious about silicone-based companionship, meanwhile, can pre-order the company’s $10,000 antimagnetic (an amalgamation of “animatronic” and “magnetic”) robotic head system—easily attached to an existing RealDoll body. A $2,000 deposit gets you a pre-order number; the life-like craniums are set to launch by the end of this year.
A virtual reality platform is also in the works, intended to offer an “alternate way to interact” with the Harmony AI.
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