CONTENT ADVISORY: This video contains images of a sexual nature.

The cavernous warehouses in TV series Westworld are filled with fleshy, realistic, AI-powered humanoids that are manufactured en masse.

Now there’s a company in China doing something eerily similar… but building people-sized dolls for a specific purpose: sex.

Baked in body-shaped moulds and strung on row after row of storage hangers, these talking dolls are built to carve out a slice of China’s rapidly growing sex toy industry.

They may not come close to Westworld-like intelligence, but the sheer volume of these robots hint at a growing industry and changing attitudes towards sexuality.

Video by Runze Yu.

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