People who like sex, but don’t like it when their partner is human and/or alive, have reason to rejoice this week, as engineer Douglas Hines has invented a ‘sex robot’, an anatomically accurate android with a personality, which doesn’t object to being frequently violated.
In fact, ‘Roxxy’ comes with five in-built, but not particularly complex personalities, which mostly involve giving pre-programmed responses to certain physical actions, like some kind of modified ‘Tickle-me-Elmo’.
These personalities include Wild Wendy, who is ‘outgoing and adventurous’, Frigid Farrah, who is not really too keen, Mature Martha, who provides a “matriarchal kind of caring” (a description which Freud would no doubt enjoy) and S&M Susan, which is ‘geared for more adventurous types’, but presumably those not quite adventurous enough to leave their house in search of real human women.
The company’s website, truecompanion.com, explains where the idea came from: Hines and a friend “were remembering a dear friend who passed away. Douglas thought that it was sad to not be able to ever talk to him again... On 9/11/2001, [another] good friend also passed away in Tower 1 at the World Trade Center. And now we cannot talk to that person... this made Douglas think seriously about how to implement a robotic representation of a person and have it reflect that person’s personality.” It appears that this sad and compassionate idea was realized by creating a robot which, in Hines’ words, “can’t vacuum... can’t cook [but] can do almost anything else, if you know what I mean... [she] has a full C-cup and is ready for action”.
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