SEX BOT SEX BOT

We think this is the silliest advancement in sex technology. A life size, fully operational sex bot that talks. Now we understand why there is a really big market for life size sex ken and barbie dolls in this increasingly virtual world of ours - but why would anyone want one to talk?

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."

Roxxxy stands 170cm (five feet, seven inches) tall, weighs 54.43kg (120lbs), "has a full C cup and is ready for action," according to Mr Hines, who was an artificial intelligence engineer at Bell Labs before starting TrueCompanion.

The anatomically-correct robot has an articulated skeleton that can move like a person but can't walk or independently move its limbs.

We especially like the fact the inventor made her able to snore- the bastard has a hell of a sense of humour....

Is this a male thing? Do males really want sex dolls that talk? Maybe they do but we are pretty sure that if any of our female friends needed ( or wanted ) a sex doll, then they wouldn't want it to utter a single word... We might want pecs that jiggle a bit and very sensitive fingers -the ability to give you feet a rub would be good and the ability to get out of bed first thing in the morning and make a cuppa and a slice of toast would be mandatory- but a voice? Nah!

So just to prove our theory and in the interests of increasing knowledge on this very important social phenomenon - we are running a survey on the right of the blog.

Q - If you had a sex bot would you want it to talk?