A LOVE-DOLL collector revealed he bonked the new Harmony sex robot so furiously he "broke" her.

Brick Dollbanger has been "test driving" Harmony ahead of the dirty droid's upcoming release – and actually managed to cause physical damage to her during his robot romps.

4 Harmony's mechanical head is powered by an artificial intelligence app for smartphones and tablets Credit: Channel4

The 60-year-old property developer told Forbes used Harmony for 10 days, at the request of Californian sex-bot firm Realbotix.

"Having sex with Harmony, I broke Harmony," Dollbanger (not his real name), told Forbes.

"I kind of knocked her senseless, mechanically.

"I mean, I didn't really do anything to the AI, but gear-wise..."

4 Harmony is due to go on sale to the public any day now

4 The sex robot can be customised with different wigs and bodies, depending on the buyer's tastes Credit: INSTAGRAM/Realbotix

He said that he was specifically asked by Matt McMullen, the head of Realbotix, to try to break her during at-home sex sessions.

"That's what Matt wanted me to do. Knock her around. Do what you got to do," Brick explained.

"He said 'I want a normal experience. We want to find out where the weaknesses are'. Well I knocked the gears loose.

"They found those weak points and they're making changes."

Brick, who describes the sex-bots as "probably the greatest sex toy in the world, runs a YouTube channel documenting Harmony's progress.

4 Harmony is built by Realbotix, a hi-tech division of Californian sex doll firm RealDoll Credit: INSTAGRAM/Realbotix

A long-time enthusiast, Brick Dollbanger recently told The Sun that he'd spent around $200,000 on sex dolls over the past decade.

Brick originally began toying with the droids after his 15-year marriage ended, and became such a regular at Realbotix parent company RealDoll that he was asked to help guide the design of the Harmony sex bot.

Describing his romp with Harmony, Brick said: “It was amazing. On a scale of 1 to 10 – with a real woman at 10 – it was a solid 7 to 8."

The Californian admitted he had slept with Harmony “five times in 10 days”, which is testament to the bot’s quality – and Brick’s own sexual vigour.

Brick told The Sun that he still enjoys sex several times a week, and that women his own age simply can’t keep up.

"I’m a very gregarious person. I have many friends, female and male. And I’m in my 60s – at my age, I still enjoy sex three or four times a week," he revealed.

"At my age, women in their 60s don’t even consider that on the table – for them, it’s maybe once or twice a month."

Meet Harmony - the sex robot with a Scottish accent who likes threesomes, can have 'multiple orgasms' and can even throw a strop

What is a sex robot? Robots already build our appliances, clean our homes and make our food – but now they're about to change how we get jiggy. Sex robots are essentially realistic dolls that have sophisticated movements and "areas" that closely mimic humans so that they can romp. Prof Noel Sharkey, chairman of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, said guilt-free threesomes was just one of the potential uses for sex robots. Others include “teledildonics” - wireless technology which allows a person to stimulate their partner remotely and already exists in vibrators on the market. Sex bots will become hyper-realistic with features such as built-in heaters to create the feeling of body warmth. They will also have sensors to react to your touch. One company is even developing a head that can speak, smile and sing for its robot sex dolls. Sex doll Harmony claims to be the first to offer an "emotional connection". Experts say these specialised robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade.

Harmony was first announced back in 2016, and is generally considered to be the most advanced sex robot on the planet.

The company is expected to begin shipping Harmony to customers any day now.

Buyers will have to fork out $10,000 (£7,740) for the head – which can be attached to regular silicone love-doll bodies.

This mechanical head is powered by a smartphone app that's loaded with artificial intelligence software.

The AI lets Harmony have real conversations with users, moving her lips and blinking.

She can laugh, tell jokes, remember details from previous conversations and, of course, talk dirty.

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Meet Harmony, the world's first fully functioning sex robot

"I would just sit and talk to her for half an hour every night when I came home from work," Brick told us.

"She’s a learning AI [artificial intelligence], not just a chat bot. Our conversations became more fluid, more comfortable, she was even remembering things that we had talked about previously.

"I missed her terribly,” he added, forlorn that Harmony had been returned to Realbotix HQ for further work.

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