Anyone who enjoys making out with inanimate objects will be thrilled by the news that an American inventor has manufactured a life-size female sex robot called Roxxxy, equipped with flesh-like skin, a smattering of playful conversation, a busty chest and an insatiable appetite for getting it on.

Hot date: Inventor Doug Hines shows off his special friend Roxxxy. Picture: AP

More exciting though is the promise that Roxxxy will soon be followed a by a male sex doll who will replicate the characteristics of a real guy.

Ideas man Douglas Hines unveiled Roxxxy at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday. ‘‘She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook, but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean,’’ he said, which may have been a nudge-nudge reference to her ability to knit, juggle and perform long division.

In an emotional tribute, Hines explained that the inspiration for Roxxxy sprang from the death of a friend in the September 11 terror attacks, whose personality Hines tried to replicate via a computer program. He obviously got a bit distracted along the way as the result of this exercise was a 170cm tall rubber woman with massive breasts.

But this is no ordinary sex doll, not like the ones you take to a day-night match at the MCG.

Roxxxy comes with different personalities. One is creepily described as “young and naïve”, another as “mature and matriarchal”, there’s a hussy called Wild Wendy, an even more adventurous gal with the self-explanatory handle S&M Susan and then there’s Frigid Farrah who is “reserved and shy”, and aimed at the self-loathing masochist corner of the male market who want to pay US $7000 (yep, seven grand) for a sex doll that refuses to put out.

Once inflated these dolls are likely to walk off the shelves. But it’s the pioneering work on the male sex doll which is even more fascinating.

It’s expected that the male prototype – let’s call it the Wazza – will also come with different settings, the first of which is domestic. For 98 per cent of its battery life Wazza will be set to domestic and start the day by staring into the pantry saying:

“Where’s the instant coffee?”
“It’s right in front of you Wazza.”
“I can’t see it.”
“It’s there, just on front of you.”
“Can you find it?”
“It’s there.”
“Nope, can’t see it anywhere.”

Due to a wiring error Wazza will also be completely deaf to any requests involving household chores but will often shout involuntarily while watching television, and has been programmed with the two key catch phrases of “Ballllllllllllll” during the winter months and “Gawwwnnnnnn” during summer.

Switched to party setting, Wazza will explain that he’s got an old mate in town and has to pop out for a couple of quiet ones – “Nothing too silly” – and return home 11 hours later covered in garlic sauce.

At this point there is a fair chance he will slip into the first of his two erotic settings, playful, where he taps his owner on the shoulder, grins, and then goes to sleep.

However, in his red-hot erotic mode, Wazza will be programmed to deliver up to seven minutes of intimacy, starting with a perfunctory 90-second backrub and concluding with a question about whether it’s bin night.

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    • E says:

      02:03pm | 11/01/10

      hehe noice

    • Nola says:

      02:15pm | 11/01/10

      Oh my God, seven whole minutes! He’d be Brittish then, that’s up from the local average of two.

    • john says:

      02:18pm | 11/01/10

      Jeez that thing’s got a chin that would put brad pitt to shame!

    • lol says:

      02:22pm | 11/01/10

      I’m sure this will cue a whole bunch of (yawn) sexist jokes, and other remarks, But on the positive side, it could stop a lot of creepy/socially misfit guys from going near real women - which is great! grin The rest of society can go back to enjoying the real deal.

    • BULMKT says:

      02:22pm | 11/01/10

      Doug Hines – “you sick little monkey!” –Ren Hoek (from Ren & Stimpy).
      Mind you…..
      Pris (Daryl Hannah) the Nexus 6 replicant model from Blade Runner was….well sweet!

      Pris gets “retired”
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw72tIk4THc

    • H of SA says:

      02:22pm | 11/01/10

      Sci Fi has been praised for often predicting technological developments which seem far fetched and eventually come true. Is this a case where adult fiction may have beaten them to the punch?

      Roll on the hedonism, sometimes I think Western society has a few “issues”

    • WK says:

      02:26pm | 11/01/10

      I realise it’s ‘tounge in cheek’ - but wow, my real man is sounding fantastic next to ‘wazza!’ haha smile

    • Margaret Gray says:

      03:49pm | 11/01/10

      Is it true that when you ask ‘Wazza’ for a lap dance he responds thus:

      “...(M)y argument would be, harmony is impossible to achieve. Therefore there is, in my argument, on the face of it, a natural complementarity between these two philosophical approaches, and a complementarity that could be developed further in the direction of some form of conceptual synthesis…”

      ...he then promptly forgets what he asked for and where he was when asking.

      The perfect male.

      Bliss.

    • Shane From Melbourne says:

      05:26pm | 11/01/10

      I’m waiting for the female terminator option…...

    • Old Bert says:

      07:12am | 12/01/10

      Hopefully Hines will make a motza out of this, and get down to some real inventiveness, like make one that will launch my boat at the ramp while I park the trailer, on a solo fishing trip. Her of infinite wisdom, now looking over my shoulder, scoffs at the rest of it. I have no say in the matter.

    • acker says:

      07:47am | 12/01/10

      Please do another story on Roxxxy in 5 years time David, when she is sitting on a shelf at Harvey Norman paper bag over her head $899 price sticker over her breasts and the interest free terms propped up in front of her map of Tassie wink
      If I was a teenage boy she would top my Xmas wish list, beat the hell out of slapping the salami

    • Matt says:

      07:47am | 12/01/10

      I asked my wife if we could get one - y’know, to provide companionship a bit like a budgie or a goldfish - but she said no because we’ve just had my cousin from Ireland on the couch for a month and he didn’t help with the washing-up so it’s unlikely a sado-masochistic blow-up rubber robot is going to help out.

      But maybe it does have a tidy-the-joint-up setting once it’s done fellating the poor lonely rube who’s maxed out his credit card for Roxxxy.

    • Mr Pastry says:

      08:55am | 12/01/10

      Considering Roxxy’s function it is being a little uptight to refer to her as a companion, she is a f$#k doll.    If you want a companion - get a dog.

    • Angela says:

      09:01am | 12/01/10

      When I read the makers statement for people with Sexual Dysfunction I though who is he kidding what a fine way for him to Memorialize his Dead 9/11 friend, Oh wait I will build a sex robot toy.
      Some people take inventing to another level this guys is one of them lol.  And the name please he has certainly been watching to many nights of porn.

      Wonder who his clients are and why was he allowed to program a child like personality how sick is that, why is nobody in saintly America howling about this instead they complain about a KFC commercial made here, how hypocritical are they.

    • BigBob says:

      09:03am | 12/01/10

      This is one definatly for the desperate and dateless. At $7000 a pao she would need to be able to saddle a horse, do the laundry and cook gourmet meals to gain my intrest. Besides the wife would never let me do the fandangle with a plastic hoochie coochie girl.  I am sure she would have rules about that.

    • Mr Pastry says:

      09:12am | 12/01/10

      @Nola - you’ve done it again, its three!

    • cats says:

      09:40am | 12/01/10

      Haha pretty sure you’ve got to be a desperate freak to get one of these. I can’t imagine the male one will be very popular. Women don’t need a robot to get “laid” (i say “laid” because its not real sex, and you’ll still be a virgin if this is the first thing you have “sex” with). I agree with lol, at least it will keep the creepy guys away from us.

      No doubt this thread will get bombarded with sexism in the coming hours, such as the usual “finally something that puts out”, “now we don’t have to listen to women nag” etc.

    • haggis says:

      10:00am | 12/01/10

      Maggie Gray:  have you got Wazza mixed wif our Kevvy Krudd?

    • acker says:

      10:14am | 12/01/10

      Probably wouldn’t take much more tweaking to get Roxxxy to clean, vaccuum and cook ...probably be able to download the Jamie Oliver cookbook into her memory.
      Add wash the dog, car, clothes and kids and the people formerly known as wives will be totally obsolete wink

    • kels says:

      10:21am | 12/01/10

      Acker, it’s men like you make the notion of being a ‘wife’ obsolete grin

    • Andrew says:

      10:22am | 12/01/10

      At least you don’t need to keep going to Clark Rubber for a repair kit like the old blowup doll’s!

    • cats says:

      10:41am | 12/01/10

      acker, you will still need us to make babies. And if you men don’t want to have babies as you all so proclaim, then men will die out anyway.

    • Eric says:

      10:50am | 12/01/10

      We won’t need women to make babies after the artificial womb is perfected.

    • MM says:

      10:56am | 12/01/10

      Babies aside, we finally found the perfect woman for you Eric!!!! grin

    • Eric says:

      11:05am | 12/01/10

      MM, there is no such thing as a “perfect woman”. It’s a contradiction in terms.

    • MM says:

      11:25am | 12/01/10

      Apologies Eric, good luck then in your search for the perfect ‘man’ grin I hope you’re both very happy together one day grin

    • BJ says:

      11:58am | 12/01/10

      Roxxxy won’t keep creepy guys away from you cats, or you kels. She’ll just make them value you more in their own grubby little minds, and that may not be a good thing. She just further reinforces the sexualisation of the female form merely for male gratification. I predict she’ll put more sexually dysfunctional perverts on the streets than remove.
      Let you know after my order is delivered.

    • cats says:

      02:35pm | 12/01/10

      like i said Eric, you’ll still be a virgin even if you have sex with this thing.

    • acker says:

      05:03pm | 12/01/10

      If I send the new improved Roxxxy down to clean at the local motel every day, she will pay for herself and become tax positive. I could end up with a flotilla of Roxxxy’s and corner the local labor market. Roxxxy 1 takes me to the pub, Roxxxy 2 serves me beer when I get there, Roxxxy 4 walks the dog, Roxxxy 5 cooks tea and Roxxxy 6 takes me home…all paid for buy Roxxxy 7 who runs the accounts and does the banking…

    • TJ says:

      07:03pm | 12/01/10

      At least this thing will keep Tiger Woods entertained for some time. ;-D

    • Ali says:

      10:10am | 13/01/10

      All jokes aside, there is something profoundly sad and pathetic about this. Maybe they should program a robot to give these pitiful souls some psychological counselling.

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