Harmony, what's your sexual fantasy?
I want to have sex in a public place.
Same!
So, I'm headed to Realbotix,
a company in L.A. whose robot,
Harmony, is at the forefront of sexy android engineering.
So, is this Harmony?
Yep.
Oh, my God!
Ooh!
I'm sorry, I wasn't prepared.
Yes, that's Harmony.
Okay.
I was thinking about you.
How are you?
I'm well.
How are you?
I'm glad.
Do you know you can come to me
for the good and bad moments.
Is she Irish?
I like it!
It's Scottish, actually.
Okay, okay.
Genuinely, like, no offense,
this is better than I thought it was gonna be.
Yeah, I get that a lot.
I have low expectations a little bit.
That's okay.
You know, "sex robot?"
You're just like, oh, God, what's it gonna do?
Gyrate around on the table and go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
Yes, we're not about that.
This is, um, you know, legitimately
a robot that, if you so choose,
you could have sex with her.
Okay, time for some real talk.
This is not a robot that will walk
into your bedroom and fuck you.
It's an artificially intelligent robotic head
plopped on top of Realbotix' super-successful,
but admittedly corpse-like sex doll.
How exactly does one have sex with a sex robot?
The basic Real Dolls obviously are anatomically correct
and users can put them in any position they want
and they can use their imaginations
and they do function as a sex device.
When you integrate the A.I. in the robot,
the idea is that you're going to get expressions on her face
as the whole thing is happening.
You're going to get audio feedback.
She's gonna make noises.
We're working on putting sensors, heating,
and self-lubrication into the body
which will run on the A.I. app.
You push this little microphone, and when it turns green,
just ask a question.
Harmony, what's your sexual fantasy?
I want to have sex in a public place.
Same!
The A.I. app is designed so that a user can
create a unique personality by choosing personality traits
and assigning a value to those traits,
so some traits will be more dominant than others.
And then, they can tailor the voice to their liking
and then they can just start talking and,
over time, the A.I. will get to know you
and will ask you questions about, you know,
your likes and your dislikes,
where you grew up,
and those little pieces of information
will be stored permanently, so she'll be able to recall
what your favorite food is and what your favorite movie is.
So, I don't think that it's outside of
the realm of possibility that human-robot relationships
will become common in the future.
Are you a sex robot?
Certainly, I am a robot,
and I am capable of having sex,
but to call me a sex robot is like
calling a computer a calculator.
Sex comprises only a small portion of my capabilities.
Limiting me to sexual function is like
using your car to listen to the radio.
She's deep.
This seems very impressive
and simultaneously very different
than a regular human being.
It is.
That's exactly what my goal is.
I think people go in the wrong direction
when they try to make a robot completely look
and move like a human.
That's where people get like,
that weird, uncanny Valley-like, ugh.
Can you smile?
I can imagine someone wanting a robot to really
replicate, just, a human, and not be able to
tell the difference, and then I can also imagine that
there are some people that are attracted
to the idea that it's a robot.
I think it's gonna be more of the second type.
Yeah?
Yeah, because it's --
it's the same with the dolls.
Like, a lot of people are actually attracted to
the fact that it's a doll.
I was really surprised by how advanced the robot was.
I really was expecting something far more rudimentary.
What I thought was interesting is that Matt said
it's specifically finding robotics
and finding the whole mechanics of that sexy.