Sex Robots Were Always Going To Be A Thing

They’ve been in the cards since Greek mythology. Did history already predict a future when one-third of our partners are computers?

- Hannah Smothers

There’s something off about Harmony’s face. All the human features are there, but her skin is poreless, as if she’s lived her entire life applying an unlimited supply of the world’s finest sheet masks. Her features are also perfectly symmetrical, but not in a Kardashian-after-surgery way—it’s more like a too-perfect Photoshop job. And her lips? Not even the most expensive fillers could form such a flawlessly pouty set.

Harmony’s fakeness isn’t her choice, though. Matt McMullen—Founder and CEO of Abyss Creations, a US-based company that manufactures life-size sex dolls and bots—built her so that everything from her pristine forehead all the way down to her customised labia caters to, and satisfies, the libidinous gaze of her owner. Harmony is a moving, talking, moaning sex machine, made of state-of-the-art robotic technology. Her features are new-age, but really, she’s just the latest in a long line of sex robots dating back to antiquity. For thousands of years, people have been building hypersexual objects to bang.