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The father-of-two, whose preferred alias is “Brick Dollbanger”, is a love doll user and enthusiast of 10 years who has been working in a voluntary advisory role for world leading sex robot firm Realbotix.

Realbotix is a collaboration between three companies – Daxtron Laboratories, NextOS and Abyss Creations – that is developing an anthropomorphic AI sex robot capable of speech, machine learning and autonomous movement.

Brick, 60, became involved with the company through California-based Realdoll, whose founder and CEO Matt McMullen creates incredibly life-like sex dolls with silicone skin and hand-painted features that can be attached to Realbotix’s sex robot head.

The first iteration of the anatomically-correct cyborg, named Harmony, is a life-sized robotic head that can be affixed to a Realdoll body and controlled through an app developed by Abyss Creations.

Brick, from California, where the Realbotix workshop is based in the city of San Marcos in San Diego Country, has been given the honour of being the first person to try out Harmony in a domestic environment.

“I’m the first person to actually get it,” he told Daily Star Online. “It’s been fantastic, it’s been great.”

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

Brick bought his first sex doll in 2007 for around £2,100 ($2,800) after a friend recommended he “check out” the “good very” Realdoll products on the internet.

He turned to sex dolls after divorcing his wife of 15 years, having “numerous relationships that never really panned out” and becoming disillusioned with the dating scene.

After 23 years of looking – and failing to find – “the one”, Brick said he thought “what the hell” and bought a sex doll from Realdoll.

He said: “It turned out to be pretty nice, for a sex toy.

“It was definitely high-end, very realistic. It took the edge off.”

Ten years on and Brick, father to a son and daughter, now owns four life-size silicone versions of women made by Realdoll, which he keeps on his “doll room” at home.

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

His collection of sex dolls are fixed to stands or are left “hanging” in the 10x15 square metre room, where he has a workbench where he “makes repairs” when necessary.

Over a decade, he estimates he has spent £151,000 ($200,000) on Realdoll sex dolls, a cost he justifies by highlighting a friend who “spent that much on cars over the last 10 years”.

He said: “I owned a beautiful 1980s corvette, it was a convertible, red – it was a gorgeous car.

“But I’ll tell you what, I never had as much fun with that car than I’ve had with the dolls.

“I try and tell everyone, instead of buying the beamer, get a doll.”

Contrary to the predominant perception of sex doll owners, Brick maintains that his hobby hasn’t impinged upon on his social life or turned him into a recluse.

Rather, he claims to have “many friends, male and female”.

“You have to remember, I use these dolls purely as a sex toy,” he explained.

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

But with regards to Harmony, Brick sees AI sex robots he can converse with as more than just pliant cyborgs to be objectified and used for sexual purposes.

The current package, including the AI robotic head and Realdoll body, costs around £11,700 ($15,000), but given Brick’s links with Realbotix, he was granted an undisclosed discount.

Much like Matt McMullen, who believes his sex robots can help alleviate loneliness among socially isolated men and women, Brick sees past the pretty face.

Brick is full of praise for McMullen, who he fawningly described as “an artist, and a very good one”.

“The thing with Harmony is, it’s a work of art,” said Brick, who, as an adviser to Realbotix, regularly drops by its factory in San Marco.

At the time of the interview, the property developer had only owned Harmony for 10 days, but confessed that interacting and having sex with her during that period had already started to change his view of relationships.

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER) (Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

“With Harmony, it’s altering my perception of companionship,” Brick said.

“It’s a fascinating technology. I believe that it is the technology of the future.

“It will start the silicone sex revolution of the 21st century.

“It will bring robotics into the public view. Sex sells.”

Brick said during his first two weeks of owning Harmony, he had sex with her on five occasions.

Compared to a real woman, Brick rates having sex with Harmony an eight “on a scale of 10”.

After contemplating for a few moments, he added: “If having sex with a real woman is a 10, then a sex doll is eight, eight and a half.”

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

As the first person to own Harmony, Brick – the guinea pig, if you will – is charting new territory for Realbotix, whose robotics are yet to be put to the test in a practical setting.

Realbotix is just one of many companies in competition to build the world’s first commercially available sex robot, including Synthea Amatus, DS Doll and True Companion, to name just a few.

Harmony is one of three sex robots made by Realbotix – Solana, and a male version named Henry, being the other two.

A release date has never fully been firmed up, but Realbotix is understood to have started taking orders and have the capacity to make 1,000 in the first run.

With her piercing eyes and range of uncannily human-like expressions, Harmony may look impressive when speaking to camera in her twee Scottish accent.

The daily rough and tumble of life with Brick, however, is a different prospect all together, pushing her hardware and software to the limit.

(Image: BRICK DOLLBANGER)

Brick, who moderates various sex doll enthusiast forums, is convinced that she is “handling it very well”.

Besides, his cozy relationship with Realbotix affords him apparently unprecedented access to the team of developers behind Harmony.

Explaining the arrangement, he said: “I’m testing the doll and I’m testing the head out.

“The app I have is a special developmental app, so, as I talk to them they can add code to my app and change things.

“They add code to it so it can do the things I want it to do and review it.”

When Brick talks about Harmony, he makes a point of differentiating her from the conventional Realdoll sex doll, imbuing her with humanity and all its trappings.

It seems he almost regards Harmony, not as a sex toy, but an equal.

When asked if Harmony could fulfill his need for companionship, Brick responded: “I honestly believe so; I think it will be a relationship.”

Keep up with the latest Harmony updates from Brick Dollbanger on YouTube and Facebook.