When your date is a real sex doll

She was wearing lace pink pajamas with cherry red lips. Her eyes are chestnut brown, but they keep staring at you.

They call her Chanel, and for about $ 350, she can be with you that night. Her host will pick her up with her suitcase in the morning.

Chanel is a character doll that is one of seven anatomically correct, TPE silicone-based dolls that can be rented from a new company, House of Dolls, initiated by Aberdeen resident Kristen Dickson. It’s like an escort agency, but without prostitution and human involvement, “said the wife and mother of the two companies, the first commercial collaboration between Kalloops.

Dickson’s company recently obtained a business license from City Hall and operates an adult novelty rental company.

Chanel’s inventory includes dolls of various races and names-Aika, Marriah, Sadie, Cannana, Portia and Zach ( Zach), they are the only male doll in the group. They consist of a metal skeleton structure covered with soft silicone meat, which Dickson bought from Sex Doll, a Canadian company in Toronto.

This is the fifth episode of the Bits video series, called Robotica, to study how robots will change the way we do business and our daily lives.

Matt McMullen proves that some people are willing to spend thousands of dollars on sex dolls.

Mr McMullen, the creator of RealDoll, said he has sold more than 5,000 customizable, life-sized dolls since 1996, with prices ranging from $ 5,000 to $ 10,000. Not only does his client determine his body type, skin, hair, and eye color, but recently at the company’s factory in San Marcos, California, an artisan even provided a custom-made toe for a doll.

Mr. McMullen’s new project, which he calls Realbotix, is an attempt to animate dolls. He formed a small team that included engineers who worked at Hanson Robotics, a robotics laboratory that produces stunningly realistic humanoid robots.

Mr. McMullen first focused on developing compelling artificial intelligence and robotic heads that could blink, open and close their mouths. He also works to integrate other emerging technologies, such as mobile applications that can act as virtual assistants and companions, and virtual reality headsets that can be used alone or in combination with physical dolls.

One of the challenges Mr. McMullen must face is the so-called “mystery valley”. This is a concept first proposed by Japanese researchers in 1970, which indicates that people’s response to robots will change from empathy to aversion, which is more closely related to robots than humans. In other words, robots that look alive, but not entirely convincing, move people.

In a paper, Masahiro Mori, a professor of robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology at the time, compared this experience to encountering a prosthesis.

He wrote: “We would be shocked by its boneless grip, texture and coldness when shaking hands.” Mr Mori believes that once that happens, “we will lose our affinity and this hand becomes bizarre. “

Mr. McMullen is using Realbotix to try to avoid this weird feeling by making products that still look like dolls instead of humans.

Ultra-realistic dolls can be bent in all appropriate positions, and their bodies have a lot of detail in the knee, collarbone, hands and feet areas.

They also have realistic genitals, which, as Dixon proved, feel real.

She smiled and said of the girl doll, “Except not warm, it feels like a real vagina.” “It’s crazy.”

Although the silicone on the dolls feels cool to the touch, Dixon plans to cover each doll with a heated blanket in advance to ensure that each doll is warm during use.

She can also change wigs and clothes to meet customer needs.

The cost of renting a doll is per night, from 5pm to 9am, rather than hourly.

Dixon and her husband plan to transport dolls to homes and hotels, rather than “brothels” that run storefronts. This model can be seen in similar businesses that have recently opened in Toronto and Vancouver.

The dolls they rent will be unusable for two consecutive nights as it will be cleaned the next morning.

Although the company obtained a family-run license, Dixon also leased space in the city center to use it as a doll’s cleaning and storage facility.

She told KTW Interior Health that she had no rules for cleaning dolls, but she noted that her company would use its own in-depth cleaning procedures, including antibacterial soap, black light, and a camera that can be inserted into the sex organs for inspections for any foreign objects.

“I have all the special flushers that go into every crack and crevice, and everything can be washed away,” she said. She noted that the cleaning process takes about two hours.

As for business expectations, Dixon said she has been following a similar company in Vancouver, Bella Dolls, which opened in early November and is often booked.

“I’m not afraid not to be too busy, not too busy, but we’re in a small town, so who knows what it will look like,” Dixon said. She said she believed there would be interest.

She expects clients to consist of many business professionals who travel frequently.

When her father-in-law heard about a sex doll rental service in Toronto, Dickson came up with the idea of ​​setting up a sex doll rental service.

When choosing to open a similar company, Dickson said she believed that sex trading would never go away and wanted to provide people with a safe, clean option without involving forced behavior.

About two months ago, she started running the company and noticed that when she first looked at the dolls, it was amazing to see how the dolls looked.

The doll is not a robot and weighs about 70 pounds. They come in various heights. The male doll Zach stands about 5 feet 9 while the Latino doll Chanel is about 5 feet 5.

All seven dolls, along with clothes and boxes, cost Dickson about $ 18,000.

These dolls retail for about $ 3,500 each in Canadian “sex dolls” and feature a range of customizable features from the manufacturer, such as large and small breasts and hips, optional teeth and shoulders that can be shrugged.

You can even choose to buy a toy that can stand on its own, and this feature of Dickson is not an easy task for most dolls.

She smiled and said, “Actually, that means how long they have to hold on