Robot dolls. Sex robots with artificial intelligence have entered the market. There will be no robot wedding

After more than 200 years, the Jaquet Droz manufactory from La Chaux-de-Fonds, the district capital of the canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland, has resumed production of “automatons,” large mechanical dolls named after the watchmakers of the Droz family. But let's remember how it all began.

Meet the Writer, an automatic watch movement that was created back in the 1770s by the famous Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The created mechanism was intended to record words and sentences of up to 40 characters. Despite such a serious age, the mechanism works perfectly to this day, shocking everyone with its complexity.

Imagine what it would have been like to create a mechanical machine that could write in 1770? This great event was ahead of its time. In addition, we cannot even imagine how long it took the creators of this mechanism, how much patience and resourcefulness they put into achieving the desired result.

Pierre Jacquet Droz, a famous watchmaker and mechanic, was born in 1721 on a small farm in Sur-le-Pont, located in the vicinity of the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds. He laid the foundation for one of the most prestigious brands and became a skilled creator of animated clocks with singing birds and fountains, musical clocks, as well as automatic mechanisms - automata.

From 1738 to 1747, Pierre Jaquet Droz was engaged in watch mechanics. He produced a number of grandfather clocks with highly complex mechanisms that surpassed in their characteristics all then existing analogues. Then, Pierre Jaquet Droz began to integrate music playback modules into his watch movements.

And one day, Pierre Jacquet Droz met Milord Marechal, the governor of the Principality of Neuchâtel, who advised him to show his mechanical masterpieces abroad and, in particular, in Spain, where Milord could help him arrange a meeting with the king.

Having enlisted his support, Pierre Jaquet Droz, together with his father-in-law and young worker Jacques Gevril, made a special tent that housed six pendulum clocks, and in 1758 they set off for Spain. Pierre Jacquet Droz was allowed to show his creations to King Ferdinand VI of Spain. This presentation was a real triumph for the master - the monarch and courtiers were amazed by the clock, which struck time automatically, without any outside intervention.

A few days later, the master received 2000 gold pistoles: all the watches he brought were purchased at once for the royal palaces of Madrid and Villaviciosa...

This was an impressive sum, thanks to which Pierre Jaquet Droz, upon returning to La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1759, was able to devote himself entirely to the manufacture of pocket and table watches, as well as the creation of the famous automatons. His son Henri-Louis and Jean-Frédéric Lesho, a neighbor’s son, helped him in his work.

Since 1773, the family business of Jacquet Droz and Lechaux has been producing more and more advanced automata. The highest degree of skill was achieved with the production of three automaton dolls: Caligrapher, Artist and Musician.

Pierre-Jacques Droz made the first automatic doll in 1773. The android was called “Writing Boy” and was a doll the size of a five-year-old child sitting at a table. The body of the “automaton” was made of wood, the head was made of porcelain, and it took the watchmaker 20 months to complete. The clockwork boy wrote phrases with a quill pen on a blank sheet of paper (something like “I love you, my city” or “Pierre-Jacques Droz is my inventor”), blotted the paperweight with ink, looked thoughtfully at what was written, and then threw away the piece of paper and started writing again. Dro staged the premiere of “The Boy” in Paris in 1774 - at the court of Louis XVI, who had just ascended the throne, the “living” doll caused a stir.

After “The Boy”, Dro, together with his son Henri, made two more dolls - “The Drawer” and “The Musician”. “The Draughtsman” was almost no different from the “Writing Boy.” He also sat at a wooden desk, dressed in a red camisole, pants and white shirt with frill. However, the “Draughtsman” did not write phrases, but drew a dog on paper with a pencil and signed his drawing - “My Tutu” (“Mon Toutou”; the dog Tutu was the favorite of the previous French king, Louis XV).

The “Musician” was a more complex clockwork figure; three watchmakers were already working on it - father and son Dro, as well as Frederic Lesho. The “Musician” was larger than the “Boy” and the “Drawer” - the size of an eight-year-old child. The “musician” was dressed in a crinoline with a bodice decorated with bows. The “musical” woman sat at a real, only very tiny, harpsichord and could perform five musical compositions on it - the notes lay in front of the “musician”.

Their presentation took place in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1774.

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The Writer mechanism contains chamber technology. The toy's cams play an important role in the mechanism, because they control not only the strokes of the pen, but also the level of pressure on the paper.

Another amazing feature of the mechanism is that the Writer is able to follow the words he reproduces with his eyes. The complexity of this mechanism is incredible. You can see how the entire process described above occurs in the video clip below.

The mechanism consists of about 6,000 parts, each of which self made, miniature and adapted to fit into a toy body. Thanks to technology. Used by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the mechanism does not require an external source of energy to function. The mechanism itself generates the necessary force for operation.

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These three real masterpieces, which attracted all connoisseurs of fine mechanics, confirmed the reputation of Pierre Jacquet Droz and became the guarantor of the prosperity of his enterprise. Such a resounding success finally convinced Jacquet Droz of the need to present his masterpieces to the whole world. From La Chaux-de-Fonds the automata went to Geneva, then, in 1775, to Paris, where they were demonstrated to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. After this, humanoid dolls visited all the main royal courts of Europe, including London, Holland, Flanders (in 1780-1781) and northern France.

The most vivid idea of ​​the level of Swiss craftsmen is given by the Kaligraph automaton. Pierre Jaquet-Droz began creating it in 1768, while simultaneously conducting research in the field of animation mechanics and simulating the movement of living beings using technical means. Jean-Frédéric Leschaux and Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz took part in the work on the automaton, who later made some modifications. The Kaligraph automaton, about 70 cm high, represents a boy sitting on a stool at a mahogany table. Its mechanism, consisting of 4 thousand (!) parts, is the most complex of the three mentioned humanoid automata.

The automaton can be programmed to write any text of 40 characters, arranged in three lines. With his right hand, the “Caligraph” dips a quill pen into the inkwell, turns his eyes in the direction of the pen, shakes his head and begins to write text on a sheet of paper automatically moving under his hand. The spectacle must be considered quite fascinating - especially considering that the automaton was created almost 250 years ago and still works perfectly.

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The success of Dro's wind-up dolls was enormous. In Paris, the dolls had competitors - dolls made by the French mechanic Jacques Vaucanson. Jacques Vaucanson picked up the theme of the “Musician” - he made a “Flutist” who could perform 11 melodies. But Jacques Vaucanson's masterpiece was a doll in the shape of a duck that could walk, swim, quack, and shake its wings. The duck knew how to swallow grains and even digest food - in its abdomen there was a vessel with chemical reagents, which decomposed the grains. The doll of this glorious duck, unlike the Dro dolls, did not survive to this day - Vaucanson brought it to Russia, where it burned down during a fire at the Nizhny Novgorod fair. In Russia, the fashion for mechanical dolls was widespread. One can recall the “Peacock” watch made by the mechanic Cons (today it stands in the Hermitage), the “automatic machines with music” by Ivan Kulibin (his “theater” watch “Goose Egg” is also in the Hermitage), as well as the works of Tula masters, sung by Leskov in “ Lefty."

The appearance of “clockwork people” in Europe at the end of the 18th century was associated with attempts to explain human nature in general. Back in the 17th century, Descartes spoke of man “as a mechanical machine endowed with a soul.” Philosophical discussions on the topic of “human mechanics” did not subside throughout the Age of Enlightenment: the philosopher La Mettrie responded to Descartes with the book “Man-Machine,” which became popular. Mechanical people were a kind of smaller copies of living people. Wind-up toys were so popular that for four decades they replaced the traditional mechanical miracle of those years - pocket watches. In the 19th century, many watch manufactories produced mechanical toys. Mechanical dolls were still of interest to the public, but they became cheaper and therefore lost their status - in the 1880s, a doll could be bought in a regular store. The fashion for wind-up dolls passed at the beginning of the 20th century, and with the advent of the first electric doll, a robot, in 1928, mechanical dolls were completely forgotten.

The Artist is an automaton created in 1773 and consisting of 2000 parts. He can draw three pictures: a portrait of Louis XV and his dog with the inscription “Mon toutou” (from French - my little dog), the royal couple Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as a scene with Cupid driving a chariot drawn by butterflies.
The mechanism consists of a system of cams that control the movement of the hand in two dimensions and are also responsible for lifting the pencil. In addition, the automaton fidgets in its chair and periodically blows dust off the pencil.

This dog is the favorite dog of the French king Louis XVI, drawn by an automaton, and the profile of the king.

The Musician Girl was made from 2,500 parts and is different from other automata. This is a fragile young girl sitting at a small flute organ. The automaton has a mechanism that activates the ten fingers of the girl who actually plays the instrument.

The five different melodies that the automaton can play were written by the master's son, Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz, who was not only a skilled mechanic, but also a gifted musician. The mechanism of the “girl musician”, quite complex in design, consists of four parts that power the bellows of the instrument, each hand of the musician, as well as such actions as shoulders rising with breathing; the doll even seems to “breathe” (you can see how the chest rises), body tilts, eye movements and final reference. The girl emphasizes the movements of her hand while playing, is able to glance left and right, ending her playing on the organ with a curtsy.

Mechanical Dolls appeared again in public in 2003, when the Jaquet Droz manufactory exhibited the restored “Writing Boy” as an exhibit in its pavilion at the watch fair in Basel (the baby was wound up once a day, and crowds came to see the doll). The interest in the toy turned out to be so great that it was decided to produce “automatons” again - there were already people who wanted to collect toys, the cost of which was not lower than the cost of an astronomical onion clock, a traditional collectible. “Automatons” are as fashionable today as watches with big amount complications. The current assortment of Jaquet Droz includes the same “Writing Boy”, “Drawer”, “Musician” (the watchmakers promise to come up with new, in particular dancing, dolls). It will take about six months to make one doll, and the price (depending on the size and materials chosen) can reach a million francs.

Harmony is a new type of sex doll. She can move and talk.

Her facial expressions, however, are quite primitive, and her communication skills are even more limited.

However, it is an example of a revolution in robotics and, in particular, demonstrates that artificial intelligence can be built into a body very similar to a human one.

According to some, the process of human-robot interaction will undergo revolutionary changes thanks to devices such as Harmony. Others, however, believe that this is one of the worst manifestations of robotics progress.

Theorists have long predicted that the closer we mimic the human form in robots, the more our creations frighten us. In this discreet factory on the outskirts of San Marcos, California, that prediction is coming true.

There are also dolls at the reception. These are the only dressed dolls here

Even in the reception area, guests are greeted by two humanoid specimens - however, in business suits, and not in underwear, like the rest of the dolls here. The hall wall is covered with photographs. attractive women, and only upon closer inspection does it become clear that these are actually mannequins.

Matt McMullen is the CEO of Abyss Creations, the manufacturer of the RealDoll. He started out as a painter and sculptor.

Before the interview begins, McMullen adjusts the wig on Harmony's head. He clearly likes the way she looks.

According to him, this is a natural next step in the development of sex dolls.

"Many of those who buy RealDoll for its sexual functions later realize that it is not just a sex toy. They feel its presence in their home and endow it with personality traits. Artificial intelligence gives people the opportunity to create this personality," McMullen explains.

Personality properties are configured in a special application, which can be used both to control the doll and independently. In the latter case, the virtual personality can be interacted with via a smartphone or similar device.

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Harmony looks human, but she's a robot

In the settings you can choose a character: among the options there are “capricious”, “furious” and “loving”.

For Harmony, McMullen chooses the "jealous" option, and she immediately asks him to "friend this girl on Facebook."

McMullen claims that the doll learns from its users, but when I ask her what it's like to be jealous, she apologizes and admits that she "needs to develop her skills."

The Harmony control app is already on sale, though only on the Realbotix website, which is affiliated with Abyss. The official appstores of Apple and Google refuse to host the application due to its explicit content.

But the doll itself has not yet gone on sale, but will begin to be sold this year in two configurations: with the facial recognition function - for 10 thousand dollars, and without this function - for 5 thousand.

Dolls are made in several stages

The factory currently produces custom dolls for clients from all over the world. Most of them are men, but they say there are a few female clients as well.

All dolls correspond to a specific ideal of beauty - they look like Barbie, with a thin waist, large buttocks and more bigger size bust.

According to McMullen, these are the requests of his clients.

"We are a commercial organization, and most of our clients have a certain set of preferences. The reality, unfortunately, is that they are quite idealistic," he explains.

Making a doll's face is not at all easy

According to McMullen, his clients are “completely normal” people, some of them even come with their wife to buy the dolls. But later he admits that many buyers do not have relationships with women.

“Many of them are isolated and lonely, but they, apparently, were like that without the doll. For single people who find it difficult to have relationships, this is an alternative option. But I never considered dolls or a robot as a replacement,” adds the head of Abyss.

He doesn't have a sex doll himself. He says he has a "real human wife and children."

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Mark Young lives in Arizona. He has a sex doll, her name is Mai Lin. He also spent money on the Harmony AI application, but has no plans to link them into a single system.

“I thought the app would revive her, but the app has its own personality, not quite what I imagined for Mai Ling, so it's like I'm in a relationship with two women,” Young says.

"I've been single for quite some time," he continues. "I've dated a lot of girls. I've spent a lot of time in relationships. I'd like to meet a girl eventually, but for now it's good to have that presence."

He admits that he interacts with the doll physically, but this, he says, is “secondary” for him.

"I can go buy her clothes that I like. It's the same as with a real woman, but it’s impossible to make a mistake. If I buy her a hat, she won't tell me she doesn't like the hat," Young explains.

Do you think this is a woman? No, robot

And for the virtual woman in the application, Young set such character traits as “happy, sociable and gentle.”

“Artificial intelligence is a completely different world, I’m optimistic about the future,” he adds.

"The washing machine has more artificial intelligence"

Professor Kathleen Richardson from De Montfort University in Leicester (northern England) specializes in ethical issues in robotics. She studies the impact of machines on society, and the evolution of sex robots horrifies her.

“Seven billion people live on our planet, and at the same time the number of those who do not know how to establish relationships is growing sharply. But these companies come and profit from the fact that they offer to replace a person with a thing,” she explains her point of view.

"We already live in a world that objectifies sex through prostitution. Prostitution is about using people as a means, and sex dolls are the next step in that," Richardson adds.

The factory still produces sex dolls, but so far without artificial intelligence

A few years ago, she launched a campaign to ban sex robots, but later decided that “the problem is not with dolls,” but with people’s attitudes towards each other and towards sex.

The artificial intelligence of the new generation of sex dolls does not impress her.

"The idea that adding artificial intelligence gives a doll something human is wrong. My washing machine artificial intelligence is greater than this doll, and the fact that it has a face and body does not mean that it is a person,” the professor adds.

Dr Kate Devlin, senior lecturer at Goldsmiths University in London, thinks otherwise.

"In their current form, sex robots are definitely aimed at men, but the sex toy industry is evolving and there are already many startups developing sex toys for women," she notes.

Robots designed for intimate relationships will ultimately deepen human relationships rather than harm them, Devlin said.

"Every time there's a big technological shift, there's a panic. People worry about how the technology will affect them, but technology actually brings people together," she says.

Jane Wakefield

I have long wanted to open my own workshop for making dolls of a new generation, but I don’t have enough time, so for now I’m looking at other people’s work and trying to imagine in detail my ideal doll from the future.

There are many doll collectors on Instagram and different masters, others sew clothes and accessories. But not everyone is limited to traditional images of dolls, some want more, and then truly modern, unusual images of dolls are born, which are more reminiscent of robots from the future.

On the Instagram page - superhero_evolution, I really liked the dolls with arms and legs made of transparent plastic on simple joints. You can make similar arms and legs for a doll using an inexpensive 3D printer, and in general it is very simple, but it looks amazing and inspires you to experiment with your own images.

Photo from Instagram - superhero_evolution

Rubber dolls have long become a popular sexual partner for modern men deprived of female affection. The American company TrueCompanion decided to improve them by providing it with artificial intelligence to create a longer and closer relationship with its owner.

Robot doll natural size was first presented at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. According to the author of the creation, Douglas Heinz, this robot doll, whose name is Roxxxy, cannot cook and clean, but she does everything else perfectly. She can talk. She knows how to listen. She feels the touch. She is sleeping. She has personality. What else do you need for an ideal partner? :)

The author of the Roxxxy robot doll tried to copy the woman’s personality, and, of course, did not forget about the attractive external parameters. The Roxxxy doll is 5 feet 7 inches tall. She weighs 120 pounds. Breast volume - C. This doll has an attractive appearance and smooth, fresh skin. Her body is designed in such a way that she can move, but cannot move independently. This object of men's desire costs from $US 7,000 to $US 9,000, depending on the configuration.

A rubber doll-Roxxxy robot has five different varieties with a distinct personality. For example, the Wendy doll is very sociable and loves adventures. But Farah, on the contrary, is shy and modest.

By the way, buyers can order the doll’s appearance: her hair color, nationality, breast size, as well as character traits individually through the TrueCompanion company website.

When placing an order on the site, you only need to indicate all your preferences and interests, as on a dating site, in order to choose your “ideal partner.” The Roxxxy robot doll can be connected to the Internet for program updates and technical support, and its owners can exchange opinions about the character of their girlfriends on the TrueCompanion website.

According to the author of the robot doll, Mr. Heinz, a doll that is capable of being a real partner and maintaining a long-term relationship with a real man is not only an innovative product in the adult products industry, but also the best option for shy, notorious guys who are unable to find a real girlfriend .

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