Male Sexbots vs. Female Sexbots – The Futuristic Approach To Love Making

Sexbot company Realbotix has announced that it will be releasing a male sex robot with a “bionic penis” that would be “better than a vibrator.”

Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix, has revealed that his company plans to release a male sexbot in 2018. Speaking to Daily Star Online last week, McMullen said, “We’ll eventually have a male and a female platform available.” He speculated that the male robot could be plugged in to “go as long as you want” and that “the sky’s the limit” when it comes to penis size. He also says that the robot’s body would look like the male sex dolls currently made by sister company RealDoll.

So far, Realbotix only advertises “Harmony,” an artificial intelligence app that is supposed to sync up with a robotic female head. The system, which was scheduled to be released last year, has been delayed by bugs. Nevertheless, McMullen remains optimistic about the chances of getting its male version out by the end of the year. “We’re working hard on that, and that’s one of the next big things we’re looking to get up and running,” he told The Star.

According to McMullen, the push for a male sex robot is all about equality. “We have equal interest in male and female versions of what we’re doing,” he told The Star. “We get a lot of people gravitating to the fact that we’ve just made a female robot so far. People have accused us of objectifying women, but it’s important that people know that this is more than a sex toy.” Indeed, McMullen claims, many women are interested in male robots as “companions to talk to and interact with.”

Not everyone is convinced by McMullen’s sunny optimism. According to teledildonics developer Kyle Machulis, none of today’s sexbots are even close to the real thing. “We aren’t anywhere near there in terms fidelity yet in sex toys, or really, in any market sector involving robots,” Machulis recently told Motherboard. “There’s a lot of tech that doesn’t exist yet that we’ll need to pull this off in the way people imagine when they think ‘sex robots.’ Indeed, at present, even the promised Harmony is just a robotically-animated head on a lifeless body.”

And even if the male sexbot rolls off the line ready to do the horizontal tango, it’s uncertain whether there’s even a market for it. AI researcher Dr. David Levy believes that “women will find robots equally appealing as men” and that heterosexual women will essentially see the male sexbot as an upgraded vibrator. But Cindy Gallop, founder of amateur erotica site MakeLoveNotP*rn, disagrees. “‘As long as you want’ is not the female definition of fantastic, mind-blowing sex,” she told Motherboard recently. “That presumes that the only thing that represents great sex for women is jackhammering her for as long as you possibly can.”

While she’s uncertain about the current model, she doesn’t completely write off the possibility of a working male sexbot in the future. “I would just love to see what a female concept [sic]-and-built approach to male sex robots would look like,” she said.