We're a long way from this "basic pleasure model"
“Sex robots” have been a fixture of science fiction and futurism for years. Hank Hyena illustrates the perceived benefits of “sexbots” in the article, “Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm“:
Sexbots will electrocute our flesh with climaxes twice as gigantic because they’ll be more desirable, patient, eager, and altruistic than their meat-bag competition, plus they’ll be uploaded with supreme sex-skills from millennia of erotic manuals, archives and academic experiments, and their anatomy will feature sexplosive devices. Sexbots will heighten our ecstasy until we have frothy, shrieking, bug-eyed, amnesia-inducing orgasms. They’ll offer us split-tongued cunnilingus, open-throat fellatio, deliriously gentle kissing, transcendent nipple tweaking, g-spot massage & prostate milking dexterity, plus 2,000 varieties of coital rhythm with scented lubes — this will all be ours when the Sexbots arrive.
Today at the Adult Entertainment Expo, the pornography industry’s annual trade show, a company called True Companion announced the “world’s first sex robot,” which claims to boast the ability to detect where it is touched and respond verbally, is “anatomically consistent with a real person,” has sensors in all of its “inputs” that sense when it is being touched, and can be customized with different personalities, from “very reserved to very aggressive.”
The company insists that it is not focused only on the physical side of sex, however. Douglas Hines, the electrical engineer and computer scientist who created the sex robot, named “Roxxxy,” says that the company is “more interested in creating companions and friends and building a bond, because sex only goes so far – and then you have to talk to the person. So that’s what we did with Roxxxy. We created a companion, almost like those dating services.”
A video of Hines’ presentation at the Adult Entertainment Expo can be found below the fold (potentially NSFW).