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Sex robots that look so realistic they will fool humans into thinking they are real are coming in the 2020s, designers claim.

The 2010s witnessed earth-shattering breakthroughs in the technology of dolls powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Sex robots can now hold conversations, memorise your personality and respond to human touch using sensors.

In the past decade dolls were even based on real people, including porn stars and comedian Whitney Cummings .

But the following decade is set to take their realism to levels only imagined in sci-fi fiction.

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Matt McMullen, found of top sex robot company RealDoll, told Daily Star Online we can expect them to be unrecognisable to humans by 2025.

So real that you will not be able to tell the difference until you are mid-way through conversation, he claims.

His company is also installing sex robots with vision that will this decade enable them to recognise you in a crowded room .

Brick Dollbanger, a sex doll collector who has close ties with RealDoll, believes this will be the decade that sex robots walk among humans .

Meanwhile Cloud Climax, who this year released its first doll with full AI, is making models that breathe using an AI chest cavity .

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It even vows its models will "replace human intimacy".

Silicone Lovers founder, Louie Love, told us he believes the appearance of his dolls are already unrecognisable to humans.

Mr Love told Daily Star Online: "In terms of 'looks', I think we're already there with some of the newer designs. To the initiated, it's quite easy to mistake the dolls for humans, especially when compared to the old school inflatable dolls.

"We've reached that point where we've passed the 'uncanny valley' syndrome and dolls actually look like real people, both male and female.

"As technology is becoming more advanced, so are our doll designs, one simple example is some dolls are now being created with 3D body scanners of humans rather than being traditionally sculpted in a clay."

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"It may well be many decades not years as many wish."

And Mr McMullen recently told us: "I would say probably within five to 10 years the appearance of a robot is going to drastically improve.

"AI may start to approach something in the mammal category but I don't see, necessarily, human-like intelligence and as such I don't think we can even consider the idea of human like self-awareness.

"That is really the big can of worms that people worry about with AI.

"So that's a little bit further out but I do think the engineering side and the artistic side will come a long way in the next 10 years."

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AI expert and chess master, Dr David Levy, also told us that we can expect humans to be able to upload personalities to robots in the near future.

He told us: "People have already tried to scratch the surface of that.

"There was an American company years ago and they were trying to develop software to conduct human-computer conversation in the persona of somebody well known.

"They got the idea of wanting to replicate one of their friends who had died at an early age, exactly as people were saying tonight.

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"And I think that will happen. At the moment human-computer conversation is one of the biggest if not the biggest unsolved problems of AI.

"And I will always believe that in order for a sex robot to reach a kind of pinnacle where they are almost indistinguishable from humans, it has to have good conversation.

"If you want a relationship with someone, you want it to be an interesting, amusing and loving conversation.

"I think that is the nut that needs to be solved. Once that's happened it will be very straight forward to create a persona that are replicas of people living or dead."