Originally published via Armageddon Prose:Last decade, RealBotix established itself as a leading pioneer in the sex robot industry, manufacturing love “companions” for lonely men with disposable incomes.Via VICE, 2018:“ RealBotix… is an offshoot of RealDoll, the most popular sex doll in the world. Now, unsurprisingly, those dolls are becoming robots: RealBotix is producing robotic heads that can attach to RealDoll bodies. So, it’s an anatomically-correct sex doll with AI and facial movement. Through the AI, the doll can talk to you, answer and ask questions, and even remember things about you—so that after a while, it’s like the doll gets to know you. It’s basically Siri, except it makes stiff facial expressions and has a body that you can mold into any position and fuck. Also, it doesn’t know any useful information.Physically, the dolls are pretty impressive. They’ve got soft skin and realistic hair. It’s not like you can’t distinguish them from a human—they definitely look like dolls. But they also have a sexy, human-like quality to them. I talked to Matt McMullen, the RealBotix founder and CEO, and he told me that the doll isn’t supposed to look totally realistic; part of the attraction is in the fact that it’s clearly a doll that you can control.”Related: Supercomputer Given Authority to Decide Whether to Block Out Sun For Climate ChangeBack in the day, when sex robots were still a utopian science-fiction-comes-to-life novelty, VICE dispatched its top bimbo reporter for a liberating feminist series dispensing life lessons to young women on 21st-century whoring, cleverly titled SLUTEVER, to interview the robot whore and its maker, Realbotix CEO Matt McMullen.“Harmony, what’s your sexual fantasy?” VICE’s top bimbo reporter queries with the strongest vocal fry she can muster. (The sex robot’s name is Harmony.)“I want to have sex in a public place,” Harmony responds.“Same!” the top VICE bimbo, who is basically a sex robot herself with a biological interface, shoots back.Thus was forged an unlikely bond, between robot and human, over their shared passion for whoring.Related: What Is ‘Theory of Mind,’ and Has AI Developed It?-----------------------------------------[If you appreciate Armageddon Prose, please consider a $5/month or $50/year Substack subscription or a one-time digital “coffee” donation. For alternative means of patronage, email benbartee@protonmail.com.]------------------------------------------Anyway, in a marketing rebrand, the company plugged up Harmony’s love-holes with calking or whatever so as to render her no longer “anatomically correct,” renamed her Aria, put her in a power-pantsuit, and reinvented her as a girlboss jack-of-all-trades working professional, no longer “intended for sexual purposes.”Via BestofAI, 2025:“Realbotix, a company known for its history of producing sex dolls, showcased a life-sized robot named “Aria” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Designed for social interaction, Aria can speak with an AI-enabled voice and move her head, but her sexualized appearance has sparked comparisons to sex dolls. Realbotix, now a subsidiary of Tokens.com, insists that Aria is not intended for sexual purposes and lacks anatomical correctness. The company aims to rebrand its robots as emotional companions, distancing itself from its adult industry roots to focus on mainstream applications like hospitality and companionship.Despite these efforts, Realbotix faces challenges in overcoming its past associations and gaining acceptance for its AI robotics in professional settings. The company’s pivot to AI robotics comes amid competition from major players like Tesla and Figure, who are also developing humanoid robots. Realbotix’s strategy involves separating its robotics business from its adult products to facilitate growth, but the company must still contend with public perception and skepticism. The acquisition by Tokens.com, known for its controversial investment in virtual real estate, adds another layer of complexity to Realbotix’s repositioning efforts.”Related: Red Alert: WEF Takeover of American Education System Goes LiveNow, Harmony the robot love slave, who gave up whoring and got renamed Aria, has once again forged a new path.She’s now a paraprofessional called Sally with a contract to teach public school kids on an Indian reservation in New York.Via New York Focus:“When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small, rural district located on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to be one of the first in the country to put a humanoid robot in a classroom. It will not replace the classroom teacher, but is programmed to provide learning support to both students and educators.At a board meeting last month, the Cattaraugus County school district agreed to purchase the robot from Realbotix, a tech company, along with an artificial intelligence teacher’s assistant program allowing students to interact with an avatar of the robot on laptops...The female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair, Kiguel said in an interview with New York Focus. It will be stationary in a seated position but have a wide range of upper-body movements and facial expressions…Salamanca plans to introduce the robot and avatar in its high school AI and robotics courses, which use curriculum developed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to prepare students for high-demand tech jobs. The district plans to expand it to high school students in other classes if the pilot is successful…The products cost the district $57,590, according to the contract attached to the school board agenda. Kiguel said the price was discounted; the company’s website lists the M-Series robot, the model purchased by the district, at a starting price of $95,000.”Related: Teachers’ Union Boss Suffers Conniption Fit Over Looming Department of Education DeathSex Robot Rebrands as Hot Teacher, Lands Contract With New York School District pic.twitter.com/DMCUECWldK