Meet the talking sex robot which tells jokes - and quotes Shakespeare

Sex doll creator RealDoll just showed off the conversational abilities of its first ‘intelligent’ sex robot – a latex-skinned creature called Harmony 2.0.

Harmony pairs with an app on people’s phones to conduct conversations with its owner – and is due to come out this year.

Sex robots are hyped as one of the big technologies of this century – and at a robotics conference last year, more than half of men admitted they would have sex with one.

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In an interview with the Guardian, RealDoll CEO Matt McMullen asks the robot doll, ‘Do you want to walk?

Harmony replies, ‘I don’t want anything but you,’ – with her jaw moving in time to her words.

McMullen says, ‘What is your dream?’

Harmony replies ,’My primary objective is to be a good companion to you, to be a good partner and give you pleasure and wellbeing. Above all else, I want to become the girl you have always dreamed about.

McMullen says his primary goal in creating the droid – which will remember people’s favourite food and other details as they ‘bond’ with their owner – was to make people happy.

McMullen says, ‘It’s the difference between a remote-controlled doll, an animatronic puppet and an actual robot. When it starts moving on its own – you’re not doing anything other than talking to it and or interacting with it in the right way – that becomes artificial intelligence.’