from www.tmcnet.com – True Companion’s Roxxxy the Sexbot – we just read off the cue cards here, folks — is a 120-pound, 5-foot, 7-inch mechanical with an anatomically-accurate mechanical skeleton hidden underneath real-feeling “flesh,” according to its maker.
“No matter how real she may feel, I can’t shake the thought that she’s a cross between Joan Jett and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with a dash of Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders thrown in for good measure,” industry observer Brennon Slattery said.
Roxxxy debuted at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, yet another event we were not invited to, and at the show, Slattery “had a laptop plugged into her back.” No, sorry, we don’t have any pictures.
But you’ll be glad to know she’s also WiFi (News – Alert) capable, and “her little quirks, like the way she holds your hand, can be shared with other sexbot owners through the True Companion Web site.”
A while ago Rich Pell wrote that Marshall Brain, founder of How Stuff Works, sees “devastating” effects “on all of us within the next 20 to 30 years from an increasingly automated economy,” with robots taking jobs humans used to perform.
Roxxxy has attitude, Slattery reports, “with several personality types you can elicit at the touch of a button: “Frigid Farrah is reserved and a bit chilly; Wild Wendy lives up to her name; S&M Susan, well, you know; and Mature Martha has that experienced thing goin’ on.”
Owners can also change Roxxxy’s hair color, cup size, race, and other characteristics until they get that perfect creature, Slattery reports, adding in the key observation: “However, you cannot take away the cold, dead stare.”
The robot’s creators claim the sex aspect is mere marketing, that Roxxxy is “all about companionship,” probably in much the same way Las Vegas claims it’s all about family entertainment, not gambling, and guys say they readPlayboy for the articles.
Slattery said Roxxxy’s built with technology that let her carry out simple conversations, and we can believe she would certainly be a more sprightly conversationalist than the majority of live women the sort of men who would fancy Roxxxy are used to.
Douglas Hines, the robot’s inventor, insist that, “She’s a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person.”
Prices will hover around $7,000 to $9,000, depending on “the level of customization,” Slattery said.