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Chinese robotics and sex doll company DS Doll is aiming to create and mass produce the world’s first commercially available anthropomorphic sex robot with full body movement. DS Doll’s team of scientists and engineers have been developing the first iteration of the next generation android at a laboratory in Dalian, on the southern tip by China’s Liaoning Province. The first DS Doll sex robot product to go to market will be a female robotic head that can be affixed on to a life-sized sex doll body, giving the impression of a human replica. In the coming years, the firm said updated and more advanced versions of the robotic head powered by artificial intelligence will be released alongside an app that can control it. Meanwhile, research and development will be carried out to build a functional android that can move its entire body without human control.

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Qiao Wu, DS Doll’s chief development officer, told Daily Star Online the firm is putting the finishing touches on a robot that can move the upper half of its body, from midriff upwards. A video filmed at DS Doll’s R&D lab shows the upper body of a robotic skeleton coming to life in extraordinary scenes reminiscent of a science fiction movie. “We are still in the research and development process,” Wu said. “The robot can't only have a head; it must also have a movable body, including arm, hands and legs. “What you see on the video is half a body, almost completed, and the next step will be legs.”

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Wu said the company will “need time” to complete a full body movement android that can be sold to customers on the global market. If development continues at its current rate, he said the firm is hoping the autonomous cyborg will be ready for customers to buy within the next few years. Wu said full movement robots will be designed for a range of “services”, including, but not limited to, sexual pleasure, domestic help and social care. He said: “For a sex doll, a robot head is okay, but our robot will be a service robot. “We want it to move all of its body. We hope our robot will not only have a sex function, but can help and serve people in the future as well.”

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When the end product is finished, the sex robot could be the closest developers have ever come to creating an android akin to those depicted in sci-fi movies such as Blade Runner and Her. Other tech firms are also attempting to create a sex robot with full body movement with varying degrees of success. California-based firm Realbotix said making designs for moveable arms and hands will be one of its “big focuses” in 2018. But Sam, a marketing manager for DS Doll, said the company has made “significant progress” in research and development this year.

“There have been great advancements with both the imminent technology and that which will follow in the coming months and years,” said Sam, who represents Cloud Climax, the flagship DS Doll reseller in Europe and the UK. “Further progress is being made into neck movements and also into full doll autonomic movement for further down the development line. “There is a large team of research and development engineers at DS Dolls that are continuously working on both new products and current product improvement.” In the meantime, DS Doll has nearly completed the first generation of sex robots, which are expected to be released in the near future. The robotic heads attached to sex doll bodies are expected to cost between £2,895 and £3,195 for the premium range.

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Controlled through an app, DS Doll’s first generation sex robots will not have AI capabilities, but will be able to “display an array of facial expressions at your will”. Other features include playing music and voice recordings. The second version, however, will be programmed to converse by drawing on stored data or searching the internet for the answers, similar to Apple’s Siri or Google’s Alexa. The forthcoming release of the sex robot head is just a flavor “great advancements that will follow in the coming months and years”, Sam said. Sam added: “This year Cloud Climax will be seeing a lot of product introduction, with the product development and range expansion at DS Dolls. “A lot of development is at an almost completed stage. “We will see a lot of new products coming to market this year.”